Open AccessWomen and Partners’ Information Need, Emotional Adjustment, and Breast Reconstruction Decision-Making Before Mastectomy
Author(s) -
Kristopher Lamore,
Cécile Flahault,
Aurélie Untas
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
plastic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2292-5511
pISSN - 2292-5503
DOI - 10.1177/2292550320928558
Subject(s) - mastectomy , breast cancer , mood , breast reconstruction , medicine , family medicine , psychology , gynecology , cancer , clinical psychology
Our aim was to explore the differences between women and their partners on information need, emotional adjustment, and breast reconstruction (BR) decision-making after breast cancer diagnosis. A second aim was to explore these differences regarding surgery type (mastectomy vs immediate BR).