Patient Reactions to Surgeon Recommendations About Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy for Treatment of Breast Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Guidelines assert that contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) should be discouraged in patients without an elevated risk for a second primary breast cancer. However, little is known about the impact of surgeons discouraging CPM on patient care satisfaction or decisions to seek treatment from another clinician.

Objective

To examine the association between patient report of first-surgeon recommendation against CPM and the extent of discussion about it with 3 outcomes: patient satisfaction with surgery decisions, receipt of a second opinion, and receipt of surgery by a second surgeon.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based survey study was conducted in Georgia and California. We identified 3880 women with stages 0 to II breast cancer trea

SUBMITTER: Katz SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5520628 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature