ArticleFrontiers in neurorobotics2020
Using Bionics to Restore Sensation to Reconstructed Breasts.
Article in Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Used for Assessing Breast Sensation after Mastectomy: Not Fit for Purpose.The patient · 2022Pooled it
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- Sensory Outcomes and Neurotization Techniques Following Mastectomies: A Comprehensive Systematic Review.Cancers · 2026Review
- Sexual activity and functioning after breast cancer treatment: perspectives on the importance of pleasure from a radiotherapy cohort.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Addressing Sexual Health in Breast Cancer Survivors: Evidence-Based Practices and Clinical Considerations.Current treatment options in oncology · 2025Review
- A longitudinal study of sexual activity and influencing factors in breast cancer patients during treatment in the Southwest of China: a trajectory analysis model.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Breast sensorisexual function: a novel patient-reported outcome measure of sexual sensory functions of the breast.The journal of sexual medicine · 2023Review
- Sexual Health after a Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Addressing a Forgotten Aspect of Survivorship.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Top, bottom or vers? Creating a more equitable health system for sexual and gender minority patients with prostate cancer.Nature reviews. Urology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Mastectomy often leads to a complete desensitization of the chest, which in turn can give rise to diminished sexual function and to disembodiment of the breasts. One approach to mitigate the sensory consequences of mastectomy is to leverage technology that has been developed for the restoration of sensation in bionic hands. Specifically, sensors embedded under the skin of the nipple-areolar complex can be used to detect touches. The output of the sensors then drives electrical stimulation of the residual intercostal nerves, delivered through chronically implanted electrode arrays, thereby eliciting tactile sensations experienced on the nipple-areolar complex. The hope is that the bionic breast will restore a woman's sense that her breast belongs to her body so she can experience the pleasure of an embrace and derive the benefit of the sensual touch of her partner.
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