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Meta-analysis for psychological impact of breast reconstruction in patients with breast cancer

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Abstract

Aims

This meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the impact of breast reconstruction on the psychological aspects in patients with breast cancer.

Methods

A literature search on PubMed, Embase, ScienceDirect and Google scholar databases was conducted up to September 2017. The pooled risk radio (RR) or standard mean difference (SMD) and the corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using the RevMan 5.3 software.

Results

A total of 5 studies were included in this meta-analysis. There were 551 breast cancer patients receiving mastectomy plus breast reconstruction and 574 breast cancer patients receiving mastectomy alone. The results showed that breast reconstruction can significantly decrease the incidence of anxiety (RR = 0.62, 95% CI 0.47–0.82, P = 0.0006)/depression (RR = 0.54, 95% CI 0.32–0.93, P = 0.02) and scale score for evaluating anxiety (SMD = − 0.20, 95% CI − 0.37 to − 0.03, P = 0.02)/depression (SMD = − 0.22, 95% CI − 0.39 to − 0.66, P = 0.007) compared with mastectomy alone.

Conclusions

Breast reconstruction after mastectomy was benefit for improving the psychological damages in patients with breast cancer.

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    Wanjing Chen, Xiaoai Lv, Xiaohong Xu, Xiufei Gao & Bei Wang

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Chen, W., Lv, X., Xu, X. et al. Meta-analysis for psychological impact of breast reconstruction in patients with breast cancer. Breast Cancer 25, 464–469 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12282-018-0846-8

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