# OnCo record body-image-after-breast-surgery (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/body-image-after-breast-surgery/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "body-image-after-breast-surgery" ;
  schema:name "Body image after breast surgery and reconstruction"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "body image"@en, "living flat"@en, "prosthesis"@en ;
  schema:description "It can take a year for scars, swelling and feelings about a changed body to settle after breast surgery; a prosthesis, reconstruction, no reconstruction, specialist bras and talking to someone who has been through it are all ordinary routes, and none is the right one for everybody."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/body-image-after-breast-surgery/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-24"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/breast-cancer/living-with/life-after-surgery>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng101/chapter/Recommendations>, <https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/breast-cancer/breast-reconstruction>, <https://breastcancernow.org/about-breast-cancer/life-after-treatment/coping-with-breast-cancer-emotionally> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/tnbc/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/peer-support-groups/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/psycho-oncology/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/mastectomy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/lumpectomy/> .