Breast Cancer Surgery - 5 Details You Must Know

As breast cancer patients and their families should be aware of: any surgery has some risk, breast cancer surgery is no exception, so before breast cancer surgery preparations, such as: ECG, B-, near-infrared, mammography films, X films, and liver and kidney function tests, urine, feces, blood and other tests, doctors should check the conditions under which treatment options for patients. Therefore, patients should not free to leave after admission ward, so as not to affect the preoperative examination, delay treatment.

Why breast cancer for preoperative skin preparation and the skin test?

Due to surgery from the concept of requirements must be sterile skin preparation, the larger the wound surgical wound of breast cancer, preoperative extent of surgery to be shaving the skin (mainly axillary), cleaner gasoline required umbilicus, and the bath and shear fingernails, for the operation of personal hygiene and make full preparations. If penicillin, procaine and other drugs in patients with allergic history to the doctor or nurse should speak, and to prevent the occurrence of allergy test done again.

Nutrition needs of breast cancer

After radical mastectomy, surgical wound large, oozing exudate and more, and fluid consumption is also large, therefore, after due attention to diet, diet rich in digestible protein plus vitamins is appropriate, such as pigeons, cuttlefish, lean meat, etc. and a variety of vegetables, fruits, so that an early resumption of physical body to promote wound healing, and be able to tolerate adjuvant therapy.

Breast cancer the significance of drainage tube device

Breast cancer in the affected side of the chest and arm each have a drainage tube, why? After radical mastectomy because the Ministry of the axillary lymph node dissection, a large number of lymphatic vessels rupture, can accumulate in the subcutaneous lymph, the bleeding during surgery may also accumulate in the skin. Therefore, drainage must be installed with continuous suction, thus continue to smoke oozing out of the accumulation of exudate, the flaps close to the wound, is conducive to wound healing and prevent flap necrosis and infection. To be fixed after it is often squeezed drainage tube drainage tube to prevent blood clots blocked drainage tube compression, distortion and so on. Supine, turning over the range should not be too large, to prevent the drainage tube slippage, maintain drainage tube patency.

Stage breast cancer chemotherapy and breast cancer need to pay attention to side effects of chemotherapy drugs

The tumor cells and normal cells lack the fundamental metabolic differences, all the anti-cancer drugs will inevitably cause damage to normal tissue. The main response to chemotherapy in breast cancer are:

1. Some chemotherapy drugs cause diarrhea affects intestinal cells.

2. Doxorubicin in patients with drugs can cause hair loss, heart damage.

3. Chemotherapy drugs affect the brain the stomach or vomiting center gives rise to nausea and vomiting.

4. Chemotherapy can inhibit the ability of bone marrow produce red blood cells, making patients feel weakness, fatigue, dizziness or shortness of breath.

5. Cyclophosphamide may stimulate the bladder caused by dysuria, urgency, frequent urination, fever and other symptoms.

6. Anticancer drugs affect the bone marrow function, so that leukopenia, while all parts of the body could easily lead to infection, such as oral, skin, lung, intestine.

7. Chemotherapy can be directly caused by constipation, which may be reduced activity in patients after chemotherapy, diet caused by the irrational.

Because chemotherapy side effects, it should be more water during chemotherapy to reduce the drugs on kidney damage, the diet is appropriate to light digestible food. The reaction of the gastrointestinal tract, chemotherapy may listen to music, or look at some art books, to reduce the fear of drugs to relax the brain to adjust the tension to ensure the smooth progress of chemotherapy.

Protection of breast cancer after limb

After the lymph node dissection, lymphatic rupture, the lymphatic flow obstruction, postoperative limb edema, if handled properly, easy to merge lymphangitis. Therefore, in peacetime should be noted: (1) is not in limb blood, intravenous; (2) not to mention heavy limb; (3) to avoid limb breakage and infection of the skin; (4) to avoid mosquito bites.