Article
Adjustment issues related to bilateral prophylactic mastectomy in women at elevated risk of developing breast cancer.
Plastic surgical nursing : official journal of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Nurses - 1 Jan 2000
Fuller Shauna, Anderson Rebecca Cogwell
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis for North American and Western European women. Increased knowledge in availability of genetic testing has helped to identify those women at high risk of eventually developing breast cancer. This has resulted in more women considering bilateral prophylactic mastectomy as a viable preventative option. Although the efficacy of the procedure has been established, much...
Topics
- Activities of Daily Living
- Adaptation, Psychological
- Anxiety
- Attitude to Health
- Body Image
- Breast Neoplasms
- Depression
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Grief
- Humans
- Mastectomy
- Mental Health
- Nurse's Role