Dr Öncel Yakar’s comments

The breast tissue of the person shows changes after surgery, both in reduction-lifting surgeries in which a part of the breast tissue is removed and in cases where the breast is supported with a foreign tissue. A General Surgery specialist, who focuses on Breast Surgery, should be consulted regularly in the postoperative period in order to monitor these changes, to distinguish between possible post-operative changes and a newly developed condition, and to examine and treat them.

Breast health plays an important role in every woman’s life. This is based on the facts that breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and that early diagnosis and treatment significantly increase life expectancy thanks to screening methods. While stricter follow-up and examination protocols are applied for women with certain risk factors, women with no risk factors should also have breast screenings regularly. Standard breast screening guidelines recommend that women should perform breast self-examination from the age of 20, and additionally, from the age of 40, breast imaging with clinical examination and mammography once a year. In this section, especially in the twenty-fifth year of her profession and as a female surgeon, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Didem Öncel Yakar answers questions frequently asked by you. We are with you to manage your routine annual screenings and appropriate examination-surgery-treatment processes at our private practice located in Ataşehir-Istanbul.