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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, Jeong Su Shim, Jong Won Lee   +2 more
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Twenty-year follow-up of a randomized trial comparing total mastectomy, lumpectomy, and lumpectomy plus irradiation for the treatment of invasive breast cancer.

, 2002
A BSTRACT Background In 1976, we initiated a randomized trial to determine whether lumpectomy with or without radiation therapy was as effective as total mastectomy for the treatment of invasive breast cancer.
Tewart, Nderson, Ohn, RYANt, Ichard, M. G., Argolese, Elvin, Eutsch, Dwin, F. R., Isher, Ong, H, Yeon, Eong, Orman, Olmark   +17 more
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Breast‐conserving therapy is associated with better survival than mastectomy in Early‐stage breast cancer: A propensity score analysis

Cancer Medicine, 2022
Background Recent retrospective studies have reported that breast‐conserving therapy (BCT) led to improved overall survival (OS) than mastectomy in some populations.
Jiali Ji, Shushu Yuan, Jiawei He, Hong Liu, Lei Yang, Xuexin He   +5 more
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Differences in Preoperative Health-Related Quality of Life between Women Receiving Mastectomy or Breast Conserving Surgery in a Prospectively Recruited Cohort of Breast Cancer Patients

Current Oncology, 2022
As rates of total mastectomy rise, the relationships between surgery modality with domains of health-related quality of life is not well understood. This study reports differences in depression, anxiety, pain, and health status among a cohort of women ...
Elaine McKevitt, Maria Saleeb, Guiping Liu, Rebecca Warburton, Jin-Si Pao, Carol Dingee, Amy Bazzarelli, Katelynn Tang, Trafford Crump, Jason M. Sutherland   +9 more
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Consent for mastectomy. [PDF]

BMJ, 1980
The value of a system for reducing the number of women with breast lumps who consent unnecessarily to mastectomy was assessed. Sixty-one patients with breast lumps were divided preoperatively into three groups with benign, doubtful, and malignant lumps according to clinical, mammographic and ultrasound criteria.
H J Thomson, S S Miller, S M Gore, A Bayliss   +3 more
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Autologous Breast Reconstruction Skin Paddle Designs: Classification and Aesthetic Outcomes

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery Open, 2019
Objective Present study was conducted to identify common mastectomy patterns and autologous skin paddle designs, to identify patient characteristics that influence these patterns, and assess aesthetic outcomes associated with each pattern ...
Ivo A. Pestana, Nicholas J. Walker
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Shaping the Breast in Aesthetic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery: An Easy Three-Step Principle. Part II - Breast Reconstruction after Total Mastectomy [PDF]

, 2009
This is Part II of four parts describing the three-step principle being applied in reconstructive and aesthetic breast surgery. Part I explains how to analyze a problematic breast by understanding the main anatomical features of a breast and how they ...
Blondeel, Phillip, Depypere, Herman, Hijjawi, John, Roche, Nathalie, Van Landuyt, Koenraad   +4 more
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Risk-reducing mastectomy for the prevention of primary breast cancer.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2018
BACKGROUND Recent progress in understanding the genetic basis of breast cancer and widely publicized reports of celebrities undergoing risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) have increased interest in RRM as a method of preventing breast cancer.
N. Carbine, Liz Lostumbo, J. Wallace, Henry Ko   +3 more
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Toward a More Definitive Goldilocks Mastectomy: Simultaneous Addition of the Lateral Intercostal Perforator Flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2019
Summary:. The Goldilocks mastectomy was originally described as a safe technique that allowed for a single-stage autologous reconstruction in the patient who either was a poor candidate or was not interested in traditional multistage postmastectomy ...
Jean-Claude D. Schwartz, MD, PhD
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Examination of Sexual Quality of Life and Dyadic Adjustment among Women with Mastectomy

European Journal of Breast Health, 2020
Objective: To investigate the effect of mastectomy on sexual quality of life and dyadic adjustment among women with breast cancer.Materials and Methods: This study was carried out in an analytical and retrospective way by comparing women with mastectomy ...
Sibel Telli, Aysel Gürkan
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