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Body Image of Women with Breast Cancer After Mastectomy: A Qualitative Research
European Journal of Breast Health, 2016 Objective:To gain a holistic and deep understanding about how mastectomy effects the body image of women who have breast cancer.Materials and Methods: The sample of this qualitative descriptive study consisted of twenty patients who underwent mastectomy ...
Sema Koçan, Ayla Gürsoy
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JAMA Surgery, 2022 Importance Treatment options for early breast cancer include breast-conserving surgery with radiation therapy (RT) or mastectomy and breast reconstruction without RT.
S. Hanson +10 more
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Survival After Breast Conservation vs Mastectomy Adjusted for Comorbidity and Socioeconomic Status
JAMA Surgery, 2021 Key Points Question Does breast conservation offer a survival benefit compared with mastectomy when results are adjusted for main confounders such as comorbidity and socioeconomic status?
J. de Boniface, R. Szulkin, A. Johansson
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Psicooncologia, 2021 Objective: The study aims to evaluate the impact of mastectomy on body image and sexuality of women with breast cancer, as well as to provide a general understanding of their quality of life. Method: This review followed the PRISMA guidelines.
Bárbara Martins Faria +4 more
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Ethnicity and the surgical management of early invasive breast cancer in over 164 000 women
BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 This large national study examined in detail the patterns in surgical management of early breast cancer in women of different ethnicities. Allowing for different patterns of age and stage at presentation, the surgical management of early breast cancer was similar in all women, regardless of ethnicity. All treated the same Background Limited information
T. Gathani +4 more
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BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 This long‐term follow‐up study determined survival rates in a Swedish national cohort of 417 patients with breast cancer who all had neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NAST). Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) was performed before NAST in clinically node‐negative and after NAST in clinically node‐positive patients.
L. Zetterlund +4 more
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New England Journal of Medicine, 2002 BACKGROUND We conducted 20 years of follow-up of women enrolled in a randomized trial to compare the efficacy of radical (Halsted) mastectomy with that of breast-conserving surgery.
U. Veronesi +7 more
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International Journal of Surgery, 2012 To reconstruct a breast mound from cutaneous mastectomy flap tissue alone, obviating the need for additional flap or implant techniques.With growing numbers of obese and elderly women facing breast cancer, options outside of simple mastectomy without reconstruction and formal breast reconstruction using complex autologous flap harvesting techniques or ...
Heather Richardson, Grace Ma
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Coping in Post-Mastectomy Breast Cancer Survivors and Need for Intervention: Systematic Review
Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research, 2023 Background: Breast cancer is the most prominent cancer type to affect women. Surgical treatment of invasive breast cancers involves mastectomy. Due to mastectomy, women are subjected to social, emotional, and cultural problems which need to be addressed.
Anju Mishra +2 more
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Perceptions of Prophylactic Mastectomy in Korea
Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2016 Background Increasingly, prophylactic mastectomy has been evaluated as a treatment of breast cancer. Hereditary breast cancer now accounts for approximately 5%–10% of all cases of breast cancer, meaning that the widespread implementation of prophylactic
Han Young Yoon +2 more
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