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Why older women keep off implants after mastectomy

A surgeon holds breast implants. [File, Standard]

Only about two of the nearly 57 women who undergo breast removal annually due to cancer are opting for reconstruction at Kenyatta National Hospital.

Out of 312 women who had breast removal called mastectomy, at the hospital for a five-year period only nine opted for reconstruction.

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