“…Although UK reconstruction rates by age are presently unclear, the women in this study perceived themselves to be going against a norm. This might possibly be due to their younger age at diagnosis.Surgeons are suggested to deliver proreconstruction information to younger breast cancer patients (Alderman et al, 2008), and this group are more likely to choose this surgical option (Reaby, 1998;Rowland et al, 2000;Ananian et al, 2004;Finlayson et al, 2001, Jagsi et al, 2014. It is suggested by some of our participants that their medical teams assumed that they, as younger women, would prefer reconstruction even as a delayed option.…”