How much Bilateral Mastectomy Surgery helps in overcoming breast cancer?

Breast cancer is one of the most terrifying disease in today’s era. One out of 8 women is likely to get affected with this condition. 1, 50,000 fresh cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every year and 50k women die with it every day.

 

Bilateral Mastectomy Surgery is done on those patients who don’t have cancer or diagnosis of cancer, but have a higher risk factor of developing breast cancer. An experienced surgeon will generally perform Bilateral(both sides) Mastectomy Surgery in which all the breast tissue is removed and left with no or little breast tissue. The granular tissue is removed, the skin is conserved and shaped with the help of plastic surgery. The two types of breast implants are Saline-filled implants and Silicone implants. The doctor may use saline implants to reconstruct breasts or may use tissue graft from the patient’s lower abdominal area.

 

Results show that bilateral prophylactic mastectomy have reduced the risk of breast cancer by 93% in women who have BRCA1 gene or the BRCA2 gene and also in those who have a family history of cancer or history of LCIS [lobular carcinoma in situ].

 

The decision is appropriate in the situations if a woman is diagnosed at the age of 45-50 regardless of family history, orone of her close blood relative has blood cancer at the age of 50 or below or her close relative has primary peritoneal cancer, epithelial ovarian & fallopian tube cancers. It is also appropriate if a patient in 50s is diagnosed with bilateral disease in both the breasts, orif the patient in her 60s is diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer,or if a patient in her 50s is diagnosed the first breast cancer diagnosis with two breast primaries. 

If the patient herself had ovarian cancer, or primary peritoneal cancer before and also if a close blood relative, especially male had breast cancer.  The race also plays an important role,those belonging to Icelandic, Swedish, Hungarian, Dutch and Ashkenazi Jews are more likely to get affected. If ductal carcinoma is developed in the contra-lateral breast, then also is the possibility. During the biopsy of a patient the if reports confirm Lobular carcinoma in situ or LCIS is present in the contra-lateral breast. If there is any formation of micro-calcification and dense tissue in the contra-lateral breast, then too the doctors opt for bilateral mastectomy.

 

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