The amputated breast can be reconstructed in two ways, with the help of a silicone implant or with its own tissue. Applying implants is an easier and simpler way, but since there is almost always the lack of skin, it must first be expanded by expansion in the first act using a so-called tissue expander. In the next few weeks, the patient comes for 5-7 days, when small amounts of physiological saline solution are injected through a special place on the skin, so that the implant is gradually filled to the desired volume. The use of own tissue from the abdomen or back is also very common in breast reconstruction. It is the application of the so-called latissimus dorsi flap or TRAM flap. The latissimus dorsi flap is most often used in reconstruction together with an anatomical implant, and the TRAM flap as a flap of her own tissue from the abdomen, where after this procedure the patient also gets a tightening of the abdominal skin. Modern treatment of malignant breast disease today includes primary reconstruction, when patients are replaced immediately after amputation of the lost breast. A few months after the operation, an additional correction can be made in terms of achieving symmetry with the other breast (reduction and lifting of the other breast).

Operative techniques are performed under general anesthesia, primary reconstruction takes about 1-2 hours, and secondary reconstruction takes about 3 to 4 hours, depending on the type of reconstruction.