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Potential for adjuvant radiotherapy doesn't sway women from reconstruction.
2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Even though they may need additional radiation therapy, most female breast cancer patients in a Scottish study still opted for immediate breast reconstruction surgery.
Having an implant or tissue expander can complicate subsequent radiotherapy, and result in an unsatisfactory appearance of the breasts.
"Immediate breast reconstruction techniques include tissue expansion, latissimus dorsi flap with or without an implant, pedicled TRAM flap, and free tissue-transfer. Adjuvant radiotherapy decreases loco-regional recurrence and increases overall survival," said M. Hussien and colleagues in the Plastic Surgery Unit of Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland.
As more women with breast cancer are receiving adjuvant radiotherapy, the researchers wanted to understand the relationship between this treatment and women's choice to have immediate breast reconstruction.
"An audit of 121 patients who had immediate breast reconstruction over a period of 2 years was reviewed retrospectively. In March 1998 the radiotherapy protocol was revised. Forty-two patients operated on between January 1997 and March 1998 were compared to 79 patients operated on between April 1998 and June 1999," Hussien and associates wrote in the June 2004 European Journal of Surgical Oncology (The effect of radiotherapy on the use of immediate breast reconstruction. Eur J Surg Oncol, 2004;30(5):490-4).
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