Radiation can damage your skin in different ways. How much damage you receive depends on your body and how it heals, how many radiation sessions you endure, and the intensity or strength of the radiation you are given. Radiation can scar your skin, change the texture of it, change the skin elasticity, etc. I was told by my plastic surgeon that if I choose to get reconstruction surgery again after radiation treatment that most likely my skin would be too damaged to just put in an implant due to loss of elasticity and I would need to do a flap type of surgery. I finished radiation about 3.5 weeks ago and am going through the burned and blistered after effect stage right now. I'm going to wait about 6-12 months and see what my skin is like and hopefully I can get an implant installed in there if my skin can stretch enough. Flap surgery is out of the question for me at this point. I had a DIEP surgery which failed on the right side due to blood supply issues. I was then reconstructed with an implant, but that is now gone since my cancer had returned last year. My only flap option would be latissimus dorsal flap surgery, but I have so much muscle damage, scar tissue, and nerve damage in my chest along with 60% plus loss of range of motion on the right side after 12 surgeries on my chest that I can't afford to have a muscle removed from my back and brought around to my chest. I've decided if I can't reconstruct my right side that I will just go flat on both sides. Unfortuntately you may have to wait and see what is possible reconstruction wise once your skin has healed from radiation.