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Body image disturbance and surgical decision making in egyptian post menopausal breast cancer patients
BACKGROUND: In most developing countries, as in Egypt; postmenopausal breast cancer cases are offered a radical form of surgery relying on their unawareness of the subsequent body image disturbance. This study aimed at evaluating the effect of breast cancer surgical choice; Breast Conservative Thera...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739851/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19678927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-66 |
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author | Shoma, Ashraf M Mohamed, Madiha H Nouman, Nashaat Amin, Mahmoud Ibrahim, Ibtihal M Tobar, Salwa S Gaffar, Hanan E Aboelez, Warda F Ali, Salwa E William, Soheir G |
author_facet | Shoma, Ashraf M Mohamed, Madiha H Nouman, Nashaat Amin, Mahmoud Ibrahim, Ibtihal M Tobar, Salwa S Gaffar, Hanan E Aboelez, Warda F Ali, Salwa E William, Soheir G |
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description | BACKGROUND: In most developing countries, as in Egypt; postmenopausal breast cancer cases are offered a radical form of surgery relying on their unawareness of the subsequent body image disturbance. This study aimed at evaluating the effect of breast cancer surgical choice; Breast Conservative Therapy (BCT) versus Modified Radical Mastectomy (MRM); on body image perception among Egyptian postmenopausal cases. METHODS: One hundred postmenopausal women with breast cancer were divided into 2 groups, one group underwent BCT and the other underwent MRM. Pre- and post-operative assessments of body image distress were done using four scales; Breast Impact of Treatment Scale (BITS), Impact of Event Scale (IES), Situational Discomfort Scale (SDS), and Body Satisfaction Scale (BSS). RESULTS: Preoperative assessment showed no statistical significant difference regarding cognitive, affective, behavioral and evaluative components of body image between both studied groups. While in postoperative assessment, women in MRM group showed higher levels of body image distress among cognitive, affective and behavioral aspects. CONCLUSION: Body image is an important factor for postmenopausal women with breast cancer in developing countries where that concept is widely ignored. We should not deprive those cases from their right of less mutilating option of treatment as BCT. |
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spelling | pubmed-27398512009-09-09 Body image disturbance and surgical decision making in egyptian post menopausal breast cancer patients Shoma, Ashraf M Mohamed, Madiha H Nouman, Nashaat Amin, Mahmoud Ibrahim, Ibtihal M Tobar, Salwa S Gaffar, Hanan E Aboelez, Warda F Ali, Salwa E William, Soheir G World J Surg Oncol Research BACKGROUND: In most developing countries, as in Egypt; postmenopausal breast cancer cases are offered a radical form of surgery relying on their unawareness of the subsequent body image disturbance. This study aimed at evaluating the effect of breast cancer surgical choice; Breast Conservative Therapy (BCT) versus Modified Radical Mastectomy (MRM); on body image perception among Egyptian postmenopausal cases. METHODS: One hundred postmenopausal women with breast cancer were divided into 2 groups, one group underwent BCT and the other underwent MRM. Pre- and post-operative assessments of body image distress were done using four scales; Breast Impact of Treatment Scale (BITS), Impact of Event Scale (IES), Situational Discomfort Scale (SDS), and Body Satisfaction Scale (BSS). RESULTS: Preoperative assessment showed no statistical significant difference regarding cognitive, affective, behavioral and evaluative components of body image between both studied groups. While in postoperative assessment, women in MRM group showed higher levels of body image distress among cognitive, affective and behavioral aspects. CONCLUSION: Body image is an important factor for postmenopausal women with breast cancer in developing countries where that concept is widely ignored. We should not deprive those cases from their right of less mutilating option of treatment as BCT. BioMed Central 2009-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2739851/ /pubmed/19678927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-66 Text en Copyright © 2009 Shoma et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Shoma, Ashraf M Mohamed, Madiha H Nouman, Nashaat Amin, Mahmoud Ibrahim, Ibtihal M Tobar, Salwa S Gaffar, Hanan E Aboelez, Warda F Ali, Salwa E William, Soheir G Body image disturbance and surgical decision making in egyptian post menopausal breast cancer patients |
title | Body image disturbance and surgical decision making in egyptian post menopausal breast cancer patients |
title_full | Body image disturbance and surgical decision making in egyptian post menopausal breast cancer patients |
title_fullStr | Body image disturbance and surgical decision making in egyptian post menopausal breast cancer patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Body image disturbance and surgical decision making in egyptian post menopausal breast cancer patients |
title_short | Body image disturbance and surgical decision making in egyptian post menopausal breast cancer patients |
title_sort | body image disturbance and surgical decision making in egyptian post menopausal breast cancer patients |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739851/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19678927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-66 |
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