There seems to be assumptions in the community that are sometimes perpetuated in the media, about the reasons why a woman chooses to have her breasts reconstructed. Most women survive early breast cancer but undergoing treatment for breast cancer means they can lose a lot; she might feel sickly from chemotherapy or other drugs, she might be thrown into early menopause which has numerous side effects, she might feel weak and lethargic from repeated surgeries and she will have lost much or all of her hair.