Análise de depoimentos de mulheres mastectomizadas sobre o câncer de mama

The breast cancer is the most incident neoplasia in Brazilian women, configure as important cause of female death in Brazil. Its magnitude is go to be consider as a disease that go out the biological and numerical, extending of the subjective dimension and interrelationships of society and socials experiences, to into in knowledge and practices. Linking of the growing older process, the breast cancer extend as social, economical and cultural dimensions, madding in plot of socials relationships, through that acquire mean. In the context of the high expectative of live and the high number of older age persons, consider that that the high number of years had lived correspond the exposition of this individuals to corporate of the ambientals aggressions and own processes of human constitution of natural wear, like as chronicle-degenerate disease, the example is cancer. In the perspective, we collected narratives of mastectomies women with 60 age or so, about the breast cancer, the body and the growing older process, had has as objectives to reflexes about relatives questions, the comprehension about cancer, like experience, had lived and mean in the context of action and interaction of mastectomies older women, and to comprehend like women interrelationships and respond the changes that grow up of the disease and the growing older process in the everyday of their lives. Through of the narratives. We know that the disease is an initial information that take a form through successives approximation between women with their reality, since the family from hospital institution. The breast cancer to be continue a disease who cause a lot of apprehension and fear, getting and changing the ill s live as marked form. Have dad the body and the growing older process genteels and redimensions by disease, women need to define news and multiples functions due to the contingency that the disease impose

Mastectomies prophylactiques épargnant le complexe aréolo-mamelonnaire: sécurité oncologique, satisfaction des patientes et résultats esthétiques

Résumé Introduction L’efficacité de la mastectomie prophylactique est bien démontrée. La mastectomie NSM (nipple-sparing mastectomy) peut potentiellement améliorer les résultats esthétiques, mais elle n’est pas pratiquée d’emblée en raison de doutes face à sa sécurité oncologique. Objectif Évaluer la faisabilité et la sécurité oncologique de la NSM dans un contexte prophylactique ainsi que les résultats esthétiques et la satisfaction des patientes. Méthodologie Une étude rétrospective fut conduite chez toutes les femmes ayant subi une mastectomie prophylactique suivie d’une reconstruction mammaire immédiate au centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) entre1997 et 2008. Les données concernant les facteurs de risque de cancer, les complications post-opératoires et les incidences de cancer furent notées. La satisfaction des patientes était évaluée par questionnaire. Deux chirurgiens ont évalué les résultats esthétiques sur des photos. Résultats Soixante et onze patientes ont subi 86 mastectomies prophylactiques, dont 21 NSM et 65 SSM (skin-sparing mastectomy). Suivant une SSM, 34 CAM (complexe aréolo- mamelonaire) furent reconstruits. Une nécrose totale s’est produite dans 2 CAM préservés et dans 2 CAM reconstruits. Le taux général de complications était significativement plus élevé parmi les CAM reconstruits. La satisfaction des patientes quant à l’apparence du CAM était significativement plus élevée dans le groupe NSM et les résultats esthétiques, meilleurs. Avec un temps de suivi moyen de 50 mois, aucune incidence au niveau du CAM n’est survenue. i Conclusion Les NSM offrent de meilleures résultats, n’augmentent pas les complications post- opératoire et semblent sécuritaires au plan oncologique.

The aluminium content of breast tissue taken from women with breast cancer

The aetiology of breast cancer is multifactorial. While there are known genetic predispositions to the disease it is probable that environmental factors are also involved. Recent research has demonstrated a regionally specific distribution of aluminium in breast tissue mastectomies while other work has suggested mechanisms whereby breast tissue aluminium might contribute towards the aetiology of breast cancer. We have looked to develop microwave digestion combined with a new form of graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry as a precise, accurate and reproducible method for the measurement of aluminium in breast tissue biopsies. We have used this method to test the thesis that there is a regional distribution of aluminium across the breast in women with breast cancer. Microwave digestion of whole breast tissue samples resulted in clear homogenous digests perfectly suitable for the determination of aluminium by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry. The instrument detection limit for the method was 0.48 μg/L. Method blanks were used to estimate background levels of contamination of 14.80 μg/L. The mean concentration of aluminium across all tissues was 0.39 μg Al/g tissue dry wt. There were no statistically significant regionally specific differences in the content of aluminium. We have developed a robust method for the precise and accurate measurement of aluminium in human breast tissue. There are very few such data currently available in the scientific literature and they will add substantially to our understanding of any putative role of aluminium in breast cancer. While we did not observe any statistically significant differences in aluminium content across the breast it has to be emphasised that herein we measured whole breast tissue and not defatted tissue where such a distribution was previously noted. We are very confident that the method developed herein could now be used to provide accurate and reproducible data on the aluminium content in defatted tissue and oil from such tissues and thereby contribute towards our knowledge on aluminium and any role in breast cancer.

Feminist Disability Theory: Domestic Violence Against Women with a Disability

Women with a disability continue to experience social oppression and domestic violence as a consequence of gender and disability dimensions. Current explanations of domestic violence and disability inadequately explain several features that lead women who have a disability to experience violent situations. This article incorporates both disability and material feminist theory as an alternative explanation to the dominant approaches (psychological and sociological traditions) of conceptualising domestic violence. This paper is informed by a study which was concerned with examining the nature and perceptions of violence against women with a physical impairment. The emerging analytical framework integrating material feminist interpretations and disability theory provided a basis for exploring gender and disability dimensions. Insight was also provided by the women who identified as having a disability in the study and who explained domestic violence in terms of a gendered and disabling experience. The article argues that material feminist interpretations and disability theory, with their emphasis on gender relations, disablism and poverty, should be used as an alternative tool for exploring the nature and consequences of violence against women with a disability.