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Breast Cancer Surgery<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Breast cancer surgery is usually the first step in breast cancer treatment after a breast cancer diagnosis. Clinic Helena is a Finnish private clinic specialising in breast cancer treatment. The clinic’s professional and caring staff takes care of patients’ individual care needs throughout the treatment path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For us, it is important that you are happy with your body image, even after breast cancer surgery. Therefore, we pay special attention to maintaining and even improving the breast shape both during our cancer surgeries as well as breast reconstruction surgeries. With plastic surgical methods (so-called oncoplastic surgery) we can radically remove even large breast tumors and remodel the shape of the breast to almost the same as it was before the surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Clinic Helena, you are never alone. Our experienced and caring nursing staff is always present and available to ensure you receive all the help and support you need in all your concerns. With more than 20 years of experience, our breast cancer nurse Anneli knows the answers to most of the questions one might have when facing a new, even frightening situation in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Individual Treatment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At Clinic Helena, you can quickly get a consultation with our breast cancer specialist Helena Puonti, regardless of the country you live in. After a diagnosis, the operating surgeon will discuss all the possible treatment options with you and make a surgery plan that takes into account the size and shape of the tumor and breast and your individual preferences. We will arrange for the surgical treatment to happen as quickly as possible, carefully taking into account your own life situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breast-conserving cancer surgery or breast removal? It depends on the stage of the disease.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before breast cancer surgery, the surgeon will assess whether the breast cancer can be operated on with a breast-conserving method or whether the breast needs to be removed (mastectomy). The most important thing to consider when choosing the right surgery method is to make sure that the entire cancerous tumor can be removed so that there is no need for additional surgeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The patient comes to the clinic for the breast cancer surgery usually on the morning of the day of surgery and after the procedure, we monitor the patient closely in the recovery room overnight. Breast cancer surgery is not performed under local anesthesia but under general anesthesia. A typical surgery usually lasts 2-3 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quick Examinations and Treatment <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you have already been diagnosed with breast cancer or if, on the basis of your symptoms<\/a>, you suspect it, you can access Helena Puonti’s consultation quickly and without a referral. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why choose Clinic Helena:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n