Postoperative patients with breast cancer specialists to be on time please review the tumor after surgery, 2 ~ 3 years to once every 3 months ,4-5 years can be inspected once every 6 months thereafter to annual inspections, followed up for life.
Check what items? First of all requires a doctor checkup on the affected side, contralateral breast, armpit, supraclavicular lymph nodes on palpation. Depending on the illness, and some patients also chest X ray or CT, abdominal B-ultrasonography or CT, bone scan, Blood tests. According to the results of the above examinations, and then decide whether it is necessary to do further checks.
Also need to be reminded every time the patient when the referral Do not forget to bring post-operative pathology report, past treatment records and CT, X film and laboratory reports, please be sure the proper, careful, long-term preservation of such information.
