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About Chest Surgery
Based on the information you gave us, you are considering top surgery. You did not report any family history of cancer or known genetic mutations that would increase your risk. Continue to learn more about what having top surgery would mean for your care.
It’s important to remember we are not including your risk of other chest cancers, like lung cancer, in this guidance.
How would having top surgery influence my chest cancer risk?
Top surgery is different from surgery to treat or prevent chest cancer.
- Top surgery: Main goal is gender care, not cancer prevention
- Removes much, but typically not all, of the tissue that can get chest cancer.
- Some tissue is left behind to build a masculine chest shape.
- For some people, the nipple is kept on the chest. Some people get nipple grafts.
- Cancer risk-reducing mastectomy: Main goal is reducing chest cancer risk as much as possible
- A surgery for people at high risk for chest cancer based on their family history of cancer or genetic risk.
- This surgery might also be done after someone has cancer to prevent the cancer from coming back.
- Often includes removing the nipples.
Top surgery (left) leaves tissue behind to make the chest shape. During cancer risk-reducing surgery (right), the surgeon removes all tissue between the skin and the muscle wall.
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