Breast Cancer: Postoperative observation is very important

Follow-up time: The time of surgery as the starting month postoperative follow-up once every three months during the first year, second and third year follow-up once every six months, later followed up once a year, until a lifetime.

Follow-up clinic: follow-up data in order to ensure the integrity of the patient to (including foreign patients) in the follow-up time to the breast specialist out-patient follow-up. Follow-up include: Check surgical wound healing; supervision of postoperative chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other adjuvant therapy implementation; to check for recurrence or metastasis, and prompt treatment; check the opposite breast; new drugs, the efficacy of the new program evaluation. Absence of special circumstances, it is recommended to come to their own out-patient follow-up of patients, treatment should be accompanied with a family.

Follow-up letter: follow-up questionnaire in the form of letters usually ask the patient to postoperative adjuvant therapy situation, state of health in the hope that the families of the patient or the patient be restored as soon as possible after receipt of a letter, according to the time specified in the letter to come to follow-up. If special reasons can not come to follow-up, should be described in the letter. For ease of posting follow-up letter, hoping to patients prior to discharge to the medical staff to provide the most direct contact address and telephone number; follow-up if the address of the relocation, also hope to inform the call letter in time.