Before surgery

What to have ready for recovery.

A tap-to-check list for the weeks around breast surgery: what to buy, what to pack and what to ask before you go home. Open a section, check things off, add your own, and send the rest to whoever is doing the shopping.

Want to know what the surgery itself involves? Read what actually happens during a mastectomy, and after.

Your surgical team's instructions come first. What you need depends on your surgery, and many hospitals send you home with some of these. Items marked Ask your team first involve wound care or medicine.

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Sources: Torrance Memorial; National Breast Cancer Foundation; Basser Center for BRCA, Penn Medicine; HealthCentral. The questions to ask draw on the topics patients most wanted information about in Soydaş Yeşilyurt and Yıldız Fındık, Journal of Breast Health, 2016. Your checks are saved on this device only. Babette is an independent media and education company, not a medical provider.