ABSTRACT
Within many societies, women’s breasts are associated not only with sex and eroticism, but also with fertility, childbirth and breastfeeding. Most of us view women’s breasts as less attractive as they age, and increasingly women have plastic surgery to make their breasts look younger. These views are unlikely to help a woman going through breast cancer. Breasts are also meant to be smooth and unblemished, and it’s hard, if not impossible, to go through breast cancer treatment and emerge with such breasts, even if the women's had perfect breasts beforehand. It is a rare woman who comes out the other side of breast cancer treatment thinking that she has better-looking breasts than she did beforehand. Some women genuinely do, but they are in a small minority.
