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What nobody told you about your breast cancer scar
A free guide from me, Joana Pedroso, oncology scar specialist in London. Why your chest can feel tight or pull on your shoulder years later, what's safe to try gently at home, and when to get help.
Inside the guide
- Is it your scar? If it looks healed, it isn't healed. What tightness, cording, numbness and the "iron bra" can mean.
- What's safe, and when. From the first weeks after surgery, through radiotherapy, to twenty years on.
- Gentle first steps: my half circles. The simple home massage I teach my own clients, and the one sign that tells you to stop.
- What never to do, and when to get help. Why I never snap cords, what a new lump needs instead, and who to call.
Written by Joana Pedroso, oncology scar specialist trained by Restore. She sees women at Restore's clinic on Harley Street, at her clinic in Canary Wharf, and at a low-cost clinic at Future Dreams House.