The celebrity plastic surgery blog by Dr. Anthony Youn, a Michigan-based board certified plastic surgeon
Visit Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery
Christina Applegate Breast Cancer and Reconstruction
Posted on August 20, 2008
As you may know by now, Christina Applegate has undergone a double mastectomy for possible breast cancer. She has the BRCA1 gene, which is a marker for high breast cancer risk. Ms. Applegate elected to undergo a prophylactic mastectomy, essentially removing all her breast tissue in order to prevent a potentially deadly cancer from appearing. In an interview, she stated that the next eight months would be spent undergoing breast reconstruction surgery.What reconstructive surgery may she be having? It sounds to me that she is probably going to undergo breast reconstruction using breast impla...
Original article link
Subscribe to Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery