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"  Marking the start of this year&amp;#039;s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the team at PRMA Plastic Surgery in San Antonio live-tweeted from their operating suite earlier this week. 39 year-old Arizona native Melissa Ray travelled to the surgery for a double mastectomy, a preventative procedure having tested positive for breast cancer gene. (Ray&amp;#039;s mother also died of breast cancer.)    Welcome! We will begin tweeting live from the OR with Dr. Chrysopoulo in just a few minutes! #BRCAdiep \u2014 PRMA Plastic Surgery (@DiepFlapBreast) October 2, 2013      Photos may be graphic #BRCAdiep \u2014 PRMA Plastic Surgery (@DiepFlapBreast) October 2, 2013   PRMA&amp;#039;s surgeons specialize in &amp;quot;advanced breast reconstruction&amp;quot; procedures. Ray chose a DIEP flap reconstruction in both breasts \u2014 surgery where skin, fat and blood vessels from the abdomen are removed and used to reconstruct the breasts removed during a mastectomy. (In medical textbooks, the vessels are &amp;quot;deep inferior epigastric perforators,&amp;quot; hence the DIEP acronym.)    Dr. C removing breast tissue from left breast #BRCAdiep pic.twitter.com/R7DQb4o3im \u2014 PRMA Plastic Surgery (@DiepFlapBreast) October 2, 2013   Interspersed with updates on the surgery, PRMA&amp;#039;s feed tweeted information on breast cancer, surgery options and other helpful advice. In just over four hours, the surgery had been completed successfully \u2014 and shared extensively.    We end with a quote from our patient. &amp;quot;Get all the information you can to determine what is best for you. Knowledge is power.&amp;quot; #BRCAdiep \u2014 PRMA Plastic Surgery (@DiepFlapBreast) October 2, 2013   Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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