Many breast cancer patients with mastectomy consider breast reconstruction. But recommendation of radiation therapy - that may alter the tissue around the breast, impacts the reconstruction efforts. Several studies have been conducted throughout the world in the recent years to determine the level of satisfaction among the breast cancer patient with respect to the treatments they receive considering the aesthetics as well as the symptomatic relief.
As experienced by doctors through their interaction with patients, the key variables of interest that determine the level of satisfaction in patients include breast conservation , mastectomy without reconstruction , or mastectomy with reconstruction . Also, if the treatment involved radiation and associated complications. In a recent study carried out by a group of scientists at University of Michigan Medical School, Georgia, they analyzed…
