health facility offers breast cancer survivors nipple tattoos | new york publish - ny post

arms lined in purple and eco-friendly ink, tattoo artist Alvaro Quesada is rarely what melanoma survivors expect at a Madrid infirmary, the first public clinic in Spain to offer nipple and areola tattooing.

Yet his carrier of tattooing useful-looking nipples onto women who've had their breasts reconstructed after mastectomies indicators the final step of recuperation from cancer, and girls react with emotion to the procedure.

"They depart crying and hugging me. this is therapy," says 32-yr-historical Quesada, who takes trip from his tattoo parlor to attend patients at the hospital.

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Reconstruction can take place months, and even years, after breast melanoma surgery with tissue expanders usually put in to stretch the skin and make room for a future implant. developing the nipple comes later and involves yet another operation.

Tattoo artist Alvaro Quesada, receives a hug from melanoma survivor Mamen Malagon after tattooing a nipple on her reconstructed breast.Reuteres

"At this aspect most sufferers are exhausted," pointed out Lorenzo Rabadan, the medical professional who first approached Quesada about providing women with an alternative choice to surgery. He invited the tattoo artist to educate body of workers on the approach.

Clutching a light crimson tattoo gun, Quesada creates the 3-dimensional phantasm of a nipple on a affected person's reconstructed breast, mixing shades with names like 'rose pink', 'brown sugar' and 'tribal black' to imitate the natural color of an areola.

Half-blind, Quesada presents his provider freed from can charge. The countrywide health carrier did not cover the cost of his false eye after he lost his left eye to a benign tumor.

for many, a short and relatively painless session marks the end of a chapter.

"This capacity it's over and that i can prefer up my existence again," referred to Mamen Malagon, forty three. She became clinically determined with the disorder in 2011 resulting in the mastectomy or removing of her left breast.

"All carried out," she sighed as she acquired dressed. "do you know what it means to say that it's over?"