{"id":7434,"date":"2019-06-13T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=250318"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:11","slug":"teen-invents-resilience-bra-to-help-breast-cancer-patients-with-post-mastectomy-recovery-after-seeing-moms-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/teen-invents-resilience-bra-to-help-breast-cancer-patients-with-post-mastectomy-recovery-after-seeing-moms-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Invents \u2018Resilience Bra\u2019 To Help Breast Cancer Patients With Post-Mastectomy Recovery After Seeing Mom\u2019s Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post-mastectomy complications are far too common: nearly one out of every three patients<\/a> will have a complication within two years, one in five will require additional surgery, and one in twenty will have reconstruction that completely fails.<\/span>When Leah Wyrick saw her mom deal with complications after breast cancer surgery, it inspired her to try to fix one of the major problems with it: inadequate recovery bras.<\/span>Nancy Wyrick was diagnosed with stage 0 breast cancer in August of 2016<\/a>. Leah was only 15 at the time. Nancy had a mastectomy as well as reconstruction, and Leah saw firsthand the complications that arose after reconstruction.<\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s just amazing to see how many women develop these post-operative complications, that shouldn\u2019t be developed,\u201d Leah said<\/a>.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Vimeo\/Leah Wyrick<\/span>
\n<\/span>In the midst of her mother\u2019s cancer battle, Leah had to decide on her senior project. Wanting to help her mom and other women like her, she looked deeper into the recovery process after mastectomies.<\/span>She spoke with her mom\u2019s plastic surgeon, Dr. Samuel Roy, and learned that the bras provided to women post-mastectomy are a bit of a nightmare.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/WCNC<\/span>They don\u2019t fit well, can cause injury, and don\u2019t have a place to store the drains that are in place after surgery.<\/span>\u201cThe bras I get at my hospital, I have to take a pair of scissors and cut them, because they\u2019re cutting into the patients, and causing wounds,\u201d Dr. Roy said<\/a>. \u201cSometimes we\u2019ll use safety pins to actually pin the drain bulb on the bra.\u201d<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Post-mastectomy complications are far too common: nearly one out of every three patients will have a complication within two years, one in five will require additional surgery, and one in twenty will have reconstruction that completely fails.When Leah Wyrick saw her mom deal with complications after breast cancer surgery, it inspired her to try to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44489,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions\/44489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}