Preventive mastectomy for most people satisfied

“Most women think that to own a sense of self-control, he can control their own health,” researcher Anna. Rosenberg said that she was the clinical Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Kemal Oncology Center Breast Surgeons (Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson University).

“These women in the psychological assessment, the anxiety and depression scores low performance, they insist on a more active and healthy lifestyle, such as quitting smoking,” she said.

This procedure is called the contralateral preventive mastectomy. Results were published in the United States Association of Breast Surgeons Ninth Annual Meeting.

The newly appointed President of the Association, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Betty. Luo. Qiaoersiman breast (Betty Lou Qurisman)

Health Director of the Center Savanna. Willie (Shawna Willey) say that the surgery is “rational choice.”

“In fact, if the side of the breast has been suffering from breast cancer, then the contralateral breast is also a great possibility with breast cancer, because tumor cells through the lymphatic vessels transferred to the contralateral breast,” she said, “They cut the health the contralateral breast that is not going to experience the fear of being diagnosed with cancer feel. ”

Rosenberg said that the good breast reconstruction surgery is more and more women choose preventive mastectomy opposite the main reason. “They at the same time the removal of the opposite breast can be OK with bilateral breast reconstruction.”

She said that the efficacy of this procedure needs further study.

There are 35 rows of preventive contralateral mastectomy in women’s participation in this survey, almost all women believe the operation is very satisfied people.

Recurrence rate is low

At the annual meeting also issued a separate study of the early results, this study suggests that preventive contralateral mastectomy reduces breast cancer recurrence rate of contralateral breast.

Li Min is the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, the clinical Ph.D., she and her colleagues reviewed the results of the survey. Li Min’s survey, more than 500 lines of preventive contralateral mastectomy women’s participation in the removal of the breast area, there is no recurrence of a woman with breast cancer.

Rosenberg said that people are encouraged by this result, but these women “have to go through 10-20 years of follow-up” in order to draw firm conclusions too.