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64 women with operable breast cancer were randomly allocated at the time of mastectomy to a group receiving immediate breast reconstruction or to a control group to whom breast reconstruction was offered 12 months later. The objective of the trial was to determine whether immediate breast reconstruction affected the psychosocial morbidity of mastectomy. Immediate reconstruction reduced the psychiatric morbidity assessed 3 months after operation, predominantly in women with unsatisfactory marriages. Women who underwent reconstruction had more freedom of dress and were less likely to be repulsed by their own naked appearance than women who did not undergo reconstruction. Sexual and social morbidity were not affected.
C Dean, and
U Chetty, and
A P Forrest
October 2011,
Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland),
C Dean, and
U Chetty, and
A P Forrest
May 1993,
New Jersey medicine : the journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey,
C Dean, and
U Chetty, and
A P Forrest
January 2012,
Annals of surgical oncology,
C Dean, and
U Chetty, and
A P Forrest
April 1984,
Schweizerische Rundschau fur Medizin Praxis = Revue suisse de medecine Praxis,
C Dean, and
U Chetty, and
A P Forrest
October 2011,
International journal of technology assessment in health care,
C Dean, and
U Chetty, and
A P Forrest
November 2000,
The British journal of surgery,
C Dean, and
U Chetty, and
A P Forrest
October 1999,
European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology,
C Dean, and
U Chetty, and
A P Forrest
July 2016,
Zhonghua zheng xing wai ke za zhi = Zhonghua zhengxing waike zazhi = Chinese journal of plastic surgery,
C Dean, and
U Chetty, and
A P Forrest
July 1980,
Connecticut medicine,
C Dean, and
U Chetty, and
A P Forrest
March 2001,
Annals of plastic surgery,
