The authors sought to evaluate the association between fat transfer to the reconstructed breast and cancer recurrence in patients diagnosed with local or regional invasive breast cancers.
In their conclusion, Myckatyn et al. state that “In this population of breast cancer patients who had mastectomy with immediate reconstruction, fat transfer was not associated with a higher risk of cancerrecurrence”.
(*Myckatyn TM1, Wagner IJ, Mehrara BJ, Crosby MA, Park JE, Qaqish BF, Moore DT, Busch EL, Silva AK, Kaur S, Ollila DW, Lee CN: Cancer Risk after Fat Transfer: A Multicenter Case-Cohort Study.Plast Reconstr Surg. 2017 Jan;139(1):11-18)