Breast Cancer Treatment

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This paper presents a research plan, including a literature review, which addresses the issue that women who chose lumpectomy over prophylactic mastectomy as treatment for early stage breast cancer may have an increased risk for post-treatment anxiety regarding fear of recurrence.

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"Additionally there is also evidence that women who undergo the more radical mastectomy recover psychologically just as well as those who undergo lumpectomy "Women who have undergone a mastectomy for breast cancer adapt as well psychologically as those treated with surgery designed to preserve breast tissue, according to a study at the University of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center (UWCCC)." (Wisconsin 1989, pgs. 10-12) All of this information collectively leads researchers to indicate a need for further study of the negative psychological effects of lumpectomy."

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