Quality of Life After Breast Cancer Surgery With or Without Reconstruction

In the modern era, where breast-conserving surgery is a viable alternative to mastectomy, breast cancer patients and their healthcare providers have to consider the issue of quality of life in regards to the type of surgery. The choice of surgical procedure should consider the perceptions of women d...

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Autores principales: Stavrou, Demetris, Weissman, Oren, Polyniki, Anna, Papageorgiou, Neofytos, Haik, Joseph, Farber, Nimrod, Winkler, Eyal
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Publicado: Open Science Company, LLC 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2691644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19572009
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Polyniki, Anna
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description In the modern era, where breast-conserving surgery is a viable alternative to mastectomy, breast cancer patients and their healthcare providers have to consider the issue of quality of life in regards to the type of surgery. The choice of surgical procedure should consider the perceptions of women diagnosed with breast cancer as well as their functional and emotional well-being. A more holistic approach to the patient should be implemented with proper psychological evaluation before and psychological support after the crisis.
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spelling pubmed-26916442009-07-02 Quality of Life After Breast Cancer Surgery With or Without Reconstruction Stavrou, Demetris Weissman, Oren Polyniki, Anna Papageorgiou, Neofytos Haik, Joseph Farber, Nimrod Winkler, Eyal Eplasty Article In the modern era, where breast-conserving surgery is a viable alternative to mastectomy, breast cancer patients and their healthcare providers have to consider the issue of quality of life in regards to the type of surgery. The choice of surgical procedure should consider the perceptions of women diagnosed with breast cancer as well as their functional and emotional well-being. A more holistic approach to the patient should be implemented with proper psychological evaluation before and psychological support after the crisis. Open Science Company, LLC 2009-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2691644/ /pubmed/19572009 Text en Copyright © 2009 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article whereby the authors retain copyright of the work. The article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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