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Patient Self-reported Breast Cup Size and Resultant Mastectomy Specimen Weight: Implications for Reconstructive Breast Surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2022
Background:. Breast cup sizing irregularities exist due to discrepancy between garment manufacturers and patient reported measurements making it difficult to assess true preoperative and definitive postoperative breast cup size.
Kevin Perez, MSc, Sumeet S. Teotia, MD, Nicholas T. Haddock, MD   +2 more
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Australia's Three System Approach to Mammographic Image Quality Assessment

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, EarlyView.
Mammographic image evaluation in Australia remains constrained by the use of fragmented, subjective, and largely unevaluated systems. The continued use of the Perfect (P), Good (G), Moderate (M), Inadequate (I) (PGMI) image evaluation system (IES) framework despite concerns around its validity and reliability reflects a perceived practical utility and ...
Kelly Bentley‐Spuur, Minh T. Chau
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a Prototype Shirt for Post Double Mastectomy Women Without Breast Reconstruction [PDF]

, 2019
Breast cancer is a common cancer among women in the United States, with thousands of fatalities and hundreds of thousands of diagnoses every year. A common course of treatment for breast cancer is the surgical removal of all or some of the breast tissue;
Lane, Hannah
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Huge decreases in the risk of breast cancer relapse over the last three decades [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction The aim of this study was to evaluate local and systemic breast cancer control by comparing the risk of relapse in breast cancer patients in 2003–2004 with that in 1972–1979 and in 1980–1986.
Dijck, J.A.A.M. van, Geurts, S.M.E., Paquay, Y., Siesling, S., Tjan-Heijnen, V.C.G., Vegt, F. de, Verbeek, A.L.M.   +6 more
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Sonographic localisation of lymph nodes suspicious of metastatic breast cancer to surgical axillary levels

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 119-138, March 2025.
Sonographic imaging is used to identify the presence, number and location of malignant lymph nodes. Axillary lymph nodes suspicious of harbouring breast cancer metastasis can be localised to three surgical axillary levels. This paper will unpack the axillary anatomy, muscular sonographic landmarks, surgical axillary lymph node levels and the ...
Michelle Fenech, Tracey Burke, Grace Arnett, Alisha Tanner, Natasha Werder   +4 more
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Association between unilateral or bilateral mastectomy and breast cancer death in patients with unilateral ductal carcinoma

Cancer Management and Research, 2017
Shailesh Agarwal,1 Lisa Pappas,2 Jayant Agarwal3 1Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Huntsman Cancer Institute, Biostatistics Core, 3Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT ...
Agarwal S, Pappas L, Agarwal J
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Screening is associated with lower mastectomy rates in eastern Switzerland beyond stage effects

BMC Cancer, 2021
Background A recent study found an influence of organized mammography screening programmes (MSPs) on geographical and temporal variation of mastectomy rates. We aimed to quantify the effect on the example of one of the cantonal programmes in Switzerland.
Christian Herrmann, Rudolf Morant, Esther Walser, Mohsen Mousavi, Beat Thürlimann   +4 more
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Coping with and adjusting to mastectomy and widowhood : a comparative study : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]

, 1979
A comparison of two cross-sectional surveys of thirty women who had undergone mastectomy with thirty widows established that both losses were met with a similar initial grief reaction which moved through the stages of denial, alarm reaction, realisation ...
Parsons, Diana Mary
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Omission of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer: A Real‐World Validation of the Patient Populations of the SOUND and INSEMA Trials

Journal of Surgical Oncology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Treatment guidelines recommending omission of axillary surgery in breast cancer are largely based on the SOUND and INSEMA trials. However, the extent to which their study populations represent real‐world patients remains unclear.
Tia Puiras, Eeva Juhanoja, Anselm Tamminen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing Outcomes in Nipple-sparing Mastectomy: Mastectomy Flap Thickness Is Not One Size Fits All

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2019
Summary:. Nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) places greater stress on the breast-skin envelope compared with traditional mastectomy techniques. Precise mastectomy flap dissection is critical to optimize breast skin flap thickness and minimize complication ...
Jordan D. Frey, MD, Ara A. Salibian, MD, Mihye Choi, MD, Nolan S. Karp, MD   +3 more
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