Breasts grown from buttock tissues
 London, August 18, 2004 (ANI)

In a surfical breakthrough doctors have now brought hope for hundreds of women who have lost a breast due to cancer by reconstructing breasts from buttock tissue.

Renowned American surgeon Bob Allen successfully carried out an operation at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in Norwich on a British woman in her 40s who had lost both of her breasts while undergoing treatment for cancer

While buttock muscle has been used for this purpose earlier, this novel procedure leaves minimal scarring on the bottom, feels more like a real breast and is less painful.

Though the new operation still involves some scarring, yet it gets hidden since the fat is taken from lower down in the buttock.

"If we make a breast with body fat, body tissue, it is much more natural. The nerves slowly grow in, it is warm and it has blood circulating through it, so it feels more like a normal breast to the patient," The Daily Mail quoted Dr. Allen as saying.

"It gives a women more choice and limits the physical and emotional impact of breast reconstruction surgery," Allen added.