Reconstructive surgery offers more than treatment of breast cancer

A woman holding a pair of breast implants. [Courtesy]

Lynn Kamau (not her name) recalls walking into the hospital for what she believed was a routine mammogram. There was no pain, no visible warning, nothing that suggested her life was about to tilt in a new direction.

At 42, she was focused on raising her two children, managing a demanding legal career, and living with chronic back pain she had long attributed to an old spinal injury. Breast cancer, or anything close to it, was not on her mind.