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Table 2 Surgery and planned breast cancer treatment

From: The JACS prospective cohort study of newly diagnosed women with breast cancer investigating joint and muscle pain, aches, and stiffness: pain and quality of life after primary surgery and before adjuvant treatment

 

Number (%)

Surgery type

 

  Mastectomy

15 (3%)

  Mastectomy + sentinel node biopsy

69 (13%)

  Mastectomy + axillary clearance

95 (18%)

  Wide local excision (WLE)

63 (12%)

  WLE + sentinel node biopsy

230 (43%)

  WLE + axillary clearance

68 (13%)

Planned cancer treatment

 

  No further systemic treatment

82 (16%)

  Aromatase inhibitor only

95 (18%)

  Tamoxifen only

117 (22%)

  Chemotherapy only

72 (14%)

of which taxane chemotherapy – 37 (51%)

Aromatase inhibitor + chemotherapy

52 (10%)

of which taxane chemotherapy – 16 (31%)

Tamoxifen + chemotherapy

107 (20%)

of which taxane chemotherapy – 51 (48%)