Exempel på mastectomy

• Again the metastatic work up was negative and the patient decided against mastectomy.

• Patient did not wish to undergo mastectomy and requested laser therapy.

• This is typically the case in the insetting of delayed reconstruction after mastectomy and postoperative radiation therapy.

• Large-scale clinical trials have shown that breast conservation therapy, involving lumpectomy and radiation therapy, results in survival rates equivalent to those seen with mastectomy.

• It is also debatable at what age to offer surgery, and whether total mastectomy is justified.

• Therefore, even if tamoxifen only has a modest benefit, it may be preferable over mastectomy to some women from a quality of life perspective.

• Of the 30% of women requiring mastectomy, the model assumes that none receive radiotherapy.

• The explanation is that a woman operated on with breast-conserving surgery can, if a relapse occurs, be forced to undergo a subsequent mastectomy.

• When asked about "decisions" made in the course of her care, she never mentions the mastectomy she had two years earlier.

• Tissue expansion is used when there is insufficient tissue after mastectomy to create the desired size and shape of each breast in a single stage.

• What might cause a shame-inducing event for the cancer patient could be obvious, such as examining a mastectomy scar during a postoperative follow-up visit.

• Survival rates did not differ between patients treated by radiation, lumpectomy or mastectomy.

• However, many women benefit from psychiatric consultation as they are in the process of deciding whether or when to have prophylactic mastectomy.

• Seventy-six of them were followed for 83 months following treatment by lumpectomy only (n 21) lumpectomy and radiotherapy (n 27), or mastectomy (n 28).

• Assessment of the time-tradeoff values for prophylactic mastectomy of women with a suspected genetic predisposition to breast cancer.