A 46-Year-Old Woman with a Second Early-Stage Primary Cancer in Her

A 46-year-old woman with a second early-stage primary cancer in her left breast has elected to have a bilateral mastectomy with saline implants.She has requested that the surgeon also revise a small unsightly scar on her right knee and pierce her ears.While the patient's breast tumor could be treated with an excisional biopsy,she has decided to have a mastectomy of both breasts,which is considered an appropriate preemptive (preventative) surgery for a woman of her age with two primary cancers of the breast.The saline implant insertion surgery is considered a _______________ procedure,the scar revision is considered a ___________ procedure,and the ear piercing is considered a _______________ procedure.

A) reconstructive; reconstructive; reconstructive
B) reconstructive; cosmetic; reconstructive
C) cosmetic; reconstructive; cosmetic
D) reconstructive; cosmetic; cosmetic

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