First off, let me say that I think the findings of this study may not include a lot of women who have had life improvement through their breast reconstruction, or that they may not have included a big enough study group, because I for one do think that if I had a mastectomy it would affect my self esteem and feelings of sexuality toward my partner, so I probably would have been an anomaly according to this latest study that women do not generally experience a boost in their quality of life and sexual habits due to breast reconstruction after they have had a mastectomy to rid themselves of breast cancer.

Generally the though was before this study, the logical reason to have a breast reconstruction surgery was so that your feelings of femininity and your perceived quality of life would not be affected after you have had one of both of your breasts removed because of cancer.  This perception can definitely hold true in some cases, but this latest study has shown that a lot of women don’t report improved quality of lives because of this reconstruction, or any difference in their sex lives with their partners because of it.  They did the study on both women who had the reconstruction after removal of the breast(s) and women who did not and found that there was really no difference.

What I do think may have happened here though is that perhaps this was a personality thing. Perhaps the women who chose not to have the reconstructive surgery to their breasts were generally more happy and secure to begin with.  It’s something called the x factor, when there is another factor that enters into a study or survey that doesn’t necessarily have to do with the actual study results or have any impact on them.

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