Abstract

Methods: 40 patients were given a 10-point questionnaire developed in conjunction with psychologists from Keele University, following breast surgery and SLNB. Patients’ knowledge about SLNB, adequacy of information received, implications of positive results, time to receive results and support of ANC at initial surgery if appropriate, were all assessed.
Results: 85% of patients stated they fully understood SLNB after receiving written and verbal information. 35 (88%) patients understood that a positive result requires a second operation and 26 (65%) would rather not have to wait the current 8-10 days for results. Of five patients who were unaware of the implications of a positive result, three were not happy to proceed to additional surgery without further discussion compared to the majority (25 of 35) of patients who did understand this. However, the vast majority (82.5% of all patients) were happy to proceed to ANC …

Date

2011

Authors

Harriet Julian, D Appleton, C Richardson, S Sargeant, P List, S Narayanan

Journal

European journal of surgical oncology

Volume

37

Issue

5

Pages

S7

Publisher

Elsevier