ReviewFrontiers in oncology2016
Decision-Making in the Surgical Treatment of Breast Cancer: Factors Influencing Women's Choices for Mastectomy and Breast Conserving Surgery.
Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04799951 (A Survey to Assess Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Amongst Surgeons With Regards to Breast Conservation Surgery and Mastectomy), which is not on this map. Cited by 32 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
A Survey to Assess Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Amongst Surgeons With Regards to Breast Conservation Surgery and Mastectomy
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed.
- Contemporary Trends in Application and Match Rates of Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship Programs, 2018-2025.Annals of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Associations Between Health Information Sources, Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics, and Decision-Making Among Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer.Research square · 2026Article
- Real-World Application of Alliance ACOSOG Z11102: How Many Patients Can be Spared Mastectomy?Annals of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- The Therapeutic Potential of Photoimmunotherapy as a Safe, Effective and Non-Toxic Treatment Option for Superficial Triple Negative Breast Cancer.Cancer medicine · 2025Review
- Shared Decision-Making Behavior in Surgery Among Early Breast Cancer Patients and Associated Factors Using COM-B Model: A Latent Profile Analysis.Journal of nursing management · 2025Article
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Chinese Breast Cancer Patients Towards Comprehensive Postoperative Self-Management: a Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer in Italy: A Senonetwork analysis of 37,215 patients treated from 2017 to 2022.Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2024Article
- Strong Factors to Preserve Breast in Surgery Preferences among Javanese Ethnicities of Breast Cancer Patients.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2024Article
- Why do women with early breast cancer in Northern Sri Lanka undergo mastectomy? Decision-making and ways forward.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Ethical Considerations and Equipoise in Cancer Surgery.Indian journal of surgical oncology · 2024Review
- Racial/ethnic disparities in the association between patient care experiences and receipt of initial surgical breast cancer care: findings from SEER-CAHPS.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2024Article
- "I don't know if I understood the whole process from the beginning": A photo-elicitation exploration of the experience of mastectomy and breast reconstruction decision making.PEC innovation · 2023Article
- Factors influencing the decision-making process for breast surgery in women likely to face breast cancer: a cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Breast Conservative Surgery for Breast Cancer: Indian Surgeon's Preferences and Factors Influencing Them.Indian journal of surgical oncology · 2023Article
- A large single-center prospective study to investigate the factors influencing the choice of breast-conserving surgery versus mastectomy in Chinese women with early breast cancer.World journal of surgical oncology · 2023Article
- Trends in surgery and adjuvant treatment for early-stage breast cancer: a population-based study in Queensland, Australia.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2022Article
- The challenge of equipoise: qualitative interviews exploring the views of health professionals and women with multiple ipsilateral breast cancer on recruitment to a surgical randomised controlled feasibility trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Validity of breast cancer surgery treatment information in a state-based cancer registry.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2022Article
- Systematic Review of Breast-Q: A Tool to Evaluate Post-Mastectomy Breast Reconstruction.Breast cancer (Dove Medical Press) · 2021Review
- Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy Versus Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Node-Positive Invasive Lobular Carcinoma.Annals of surgical oncology · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
One of the most difficult decisions a woman can be faced with when choosing breast cancer treatment is whether or not to undergo breast conserving surgery or mastectomy. The factors that influence these treatment decisions are complex and involve issues regarding access to health care, concerns for cancer recurrence, and the impact of surgery on body image and sexuality. Understanding these factors will help practitioners to improve patient education and to better guide patients through this decision-making process. Although significant scientific and societal advances have been made in improving women's choices for the breast cancer treatment, there are still deficits in the decision-making processes surrounding the surgical treatment of breast cancer. Further research is needed to define optimal patient education and shared decision-making practices in this area.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.