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KMID : 0386519970050020473
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Research Institute of Korean Medicone
1997 Volume.5 No. 2 p.473 ~ p.484
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Survey for the Side effects of Radiation Therapy Following Breast Cancer Surgery
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Abstract
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This study was performed to survey the specific information about the time of onset frequency, duration, and severity of the side effect of radiation therapy following breast cancer surgery, and identify the difference of these data
according to the type of breast cancer surgery : modified radical mastectomy(MRM) vs. breast consevative operation(BCO).
38 breast cancer patients were interviewed with side effect profile about radiation therapy. Interview was done weekley from the start of radiation therapy through 6 weeks and 3 month follow-up interview was done at 3 month after
completion of
the treatment.
@ES The results are as follow:
@EN 1. Total score of side effect experienced by the breast cancer patients was rapidly increased at 2-3 week after intiating treatement and continousely raised maintaing high score until completion of the treatement. Some problems like
cough,
dyspnea and pain were more experience after treatment.
2. Patients with modified radical mastectomy showed more total score of side effects than patients with breast conservative operation. And both patients with MRM and BCO experienced similar pattern of side effect to radiation
therapy.
Through these data we concluded that side effect to radiation therapy was not ended at completion of treatement. Patents will continously experiend various problems and suffer from not only acute side effects like skin problem. sore
throat and
swollowing difficulty but late effect of the radiation therapy.
Clinically these data can be used for oncologic nurse to provide informational interventions to prepare breast cancer patients for the radiation therapy
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