- Strike Out Kids’ Overuse Injuries This Baseball Season
- Energy Drink Habit Led to Heart Failure in a Young Man
- 4 in 10 Transgender Women Have HIV: CDC
- Americans Still Avoiding ERs in Pandemic, But Uptick Seen in Mental Health Crises
- AHA News: While Mopping, Young Mom’s Heart Tore
- AHA News: Could the Pandemic Help Boost Diversity in Clinical Trials?
- Booster Shots a Likely Reality for COVID-Vaccinated Americans
- Health Highlights, April 16, 2021
- Did CBD Oil for Seizures Push a 2-Year-Old Boy Into Puberty?
- 1 in 50 COVID Patients in ICU Will Develop a Stroke
Reconstruction Safe Right After Mastectomy: Study
FRIDAY, July 1Immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy has a low risk of complications and does not cause unreasonable delays in breast cancer treatment, according to a new study.
Mastectomy is partial or complete surgical removal of one or both breasts.
Researchers looked at 170 women with advanced breast cancer who had immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy, including 13 women who had reconstruction of both breasts. The reconstructions were mainly done with tissue from the abdominal area, known as TRAM flaps.
Fifteen major complications, a rate of 8.8 percent, occurred among the women. These complications caused delays in further cancer treatments involving chemotherapy and/or radiation in eight women, with a maximum delay of three weeks, the researchers said.
Recurrent breast cancer was diagnosed in 15 of the women during follow-up, and immediate breast reconstruction did not cause any delays in identifying these recurrences.
The study appears in the July issue of the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
“These findings make a strong argument for immediate reconstruction regardless of cancer stage,” wrote Dr. Christopher A. Crisera, University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, and colleagues in a journal news release.
More information
The American Cancer Society has more about breast reconstruction.
Source: HealthDay
