Breast

Cancer and Reconstruction

Immediate Postmastectomy Reconstruction Is Associated With Improved Breast Cancer-Specific Survival: Evidence and New Challenges From the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database

Bezuhly M, Temple C, Sigurdson LJ, et al (Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Univ of Western Ontario, London; Univ of Manitoba, Winnipeg; et al) Cancer 115:4648-4654, 2009^§

Abstract

Background

Although immediate breast reconstruction is increasingly offered as part of postmastectomy psychosocial rehabilitation, concerns remain that it may delay adjuvant therapy or impair detection of local recurrence. No single population-based study has examined the relationship between immediate breast reconstruction and breast cancer-specific survival.

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