A mastectomy is a procedure that is the removal of the breast. This procedure is usually done because the person has breast cancer. With the patients that have the more extensive disease, they may have to go through hormone therapy, chemotherapy and radiation. The patient may have to in for testing of liver studies, bone, and lung to find out the options of treatment. Blood work, x-rays, ECG, and urinalysis are going to be involved as well. When a patient goes in for this procedure, they will be given general anesthesia. After that the surgeon will cut into your breast and preform one of the following procedures; Radical mastectomy, where the surgeon will remove all of the lymph nodes under the patients arm, and chest muscles. A modified radical
...ves the entire breast and the nipple while leaving the pectoral muscles and axillary lymph nodes intact. This surgery has reduced the occurrence of breast cancer by 90%.
Major changes occur in a women's body especially to the breasts with age, significant weight reduction, childbirth, and breast feeding. Apart from affecting the self-confidence, large breast cause other physical discomforts in the form of neck and back pain. This procedure is useful in reconstituting the breast configuration in women who have undergone Mastectomy to remove breast, mostly due to cancer. The breast formation may either involve implants or tissues from other parts of the body such as back or lower abdomen. Reconstruction of nipple and areola may be done to regain the natural appearance and confidence. The firmness and round contour of the breast can be restored by breast reduction surgery. Often, some women feel the size of their breast is too small. Some people desire for augmentation surgery after breast changes due to pregnancy, while others wish to correct the asymmetry in the size of the breast. In all these cases, it is possible to peerform breast enhancement surgery.
Tirgari, B., Iranmanesh, S., Fazel, A., & Kalantarri, B. (2012). Quality of Life and Mood State in Iranian Women Post Mastectomy. Clinical Journal Of Oncology Nursing, 16(3), E118-22
Summary: Is your life becoming miserable because of the burden of over-sized breasts? If yes, then you can find relief by undergoing breast reduction surgery.
A single-stage implant is done at the time of the mastectomy. Once the breast tissue is removed, the surgeon will insert
Breast lift surgery is a cosmetic procedure that helps to restore the youthful shape of sagging breasts for both smaller and larger-breasted patients. During the procedure, excess skin is removed and breast tissue reshaped to raise the breasts to a higher position and restore their firmness. If done correctly, a breast lift often produces excellent results that go a long way in boosting the self-image and confidence of the patient.
Breast cancer is most commonly diagnosed in Stage I and Stage II, where the size of the tumor is less than five centimeters in diameter. In these situations, surgery is often the second treatment option after chemotherapy and radiation therapy, both of which are used to shrink the tumor to a manageable size first. If the patient chooses to, the ...
Every woman has her own reasons behind her decision to get breast implants. Some women have undergone mastectomies, and get breast implants in order to feel “normal” again. According to the National Women’s Health Network (http://www.womenshealthnetwork.org) women who have lumpectomies have the same survival rate of women who have mastectomies as a result of breast cancer. They concluded that up to 40 percent of women who were diagnosed with breast cancer underwent unnecessary mastectomies. These mastectomies, whether necessary or not may lead to women to undergo breast augmentation surgery.
What would you do if you found out you had breast cancer? Who would you tell first? How would you deal with it? The diagnosis of breast cancer is becoming more common today; we need to know what the symptoms are, and how to help prevent it. Breast cancer is the leading reason of death in women in the United States; it has increased greatly over the last 30 years. Many people wonder why it has increased so much in the last few years, and there are many reasons that it has.
What is breast cancer? According to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institute of Health breast cancer is a, “cancer that forms in tissues of the breast" (cancer.gov). More specifically breast cancer is a malignant tumor that grows inside the breast tissue. What happens is one cell in the tissue does not get the stop signal and keeps dividing into this big mass. This big mass continues to grow and grow and could eventually taking over space that is meant for other tissue or getting into the blood stream taking the dividing cells elsewhere. Breast cancer normally starts in one of two places.
Treatment for primary, localized breast cancer commonly includes surgical interventions based on tumor type, size, and stage. Certain procedures such as a local excision or lumpectomy conserve more of a woman’s breast than others, where only the breast lump and surrounding area of tissue are removed. A mastectomy is a more radical procedure that removes the entire breast. After a mastectomy, some women choose to have breast reconstructive surgery to restore their sense of body integrity (LeMone et al., 2011). Recently, surgical techniques have improved, resulting in less radical and invasive surgeries. The increase in breast conserving surgery has been related to screening mammograms. On average, screening for breast cancer detects tumors in smaller and earlier stages, enabling patients to begin treatment before the cancer advances to more invasive stages (Watts, 2013).
...therapy. Surgery entails partial mastectomy, full mastectomy and a radical mastectomy. Woman of course want to be able to keep their breast in tact but in some cases it is necessary to emoted part of the breast or the whole breast. Partial mastectomy only removes part of the affected breast depending on how big the tumor is and the location in which it is placed. A full mestetocomy is where the full breast is removed along with other tissues nearby if necessary which is known as radical mastectomy. Many times women go through numerous reconstructive surgeries to reshape their breast attempting to construct them as closely as possible to their original breast. Chemotherapy is a universal treetment for every stage of breast cancer whether doctors are using pre surgery to help shrink tumors or post surgery to ensure that cancer cells do not show their ugly face again.
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the world (Breast). Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed: one in eight women will have breast cancer (Walgreens, 2011; Chen, 2010). “I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.' “- Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a democratic representative of Florida (2011).
A study done by Norum et. al. [15] in 1997 performed cost utility and cost minimization analysis for comparison of lumpectomy and mastectomy in Norway. The cost of treatment for every single lumpectomy patients was 9564$ and for mastectomy patients was
Sociology Seeking to understand the sociology of the mastectomied body, it is important to look to the discipline of sociology—how are the breasted body and the mastectomied body represented and used in society? This is a question that can be answered by sociology. This section will focus on sources that expose the sociology of the breast, itself. Additionally, these sources explore the social penalties following mastectomy and examine how mastectomized women “manage” their stigmatized bodies.