Retrospective analysis of the epidemiological profile of patients submitted to breast reconstruction at a public hospital in the Northeast

Abstract

Objective: Breast reconstruction is a right assured by the public health system to patients submitted to mastectomy.
However, there are factors that delay the performance of this procedure. To understand the epidemiological profile of
women with breast cancer who underwent breast reconstruction in a reference hospital in the state of Pernambuco.
Methodology: This is an observational, retrospective research with an analytical character and descriptive approach.
The data were collected through a questionnaire sociodemographic and clinical-surgical history of patients with breast
carcinoma and then analyzed by the SPSS software, version 18, with the percentages of the categories evaluated by the chi-
-square test, considering the significance level of 5%. The comparison of analyses was significant (p<0.005), showing that
the profile described is the most frequent in the group of patients evaluated. This search was submitted and approved by
the Ethics and Research Committee on Human Beings of Fundação Amaury de Medeiros, CAAE: 42457420.1.0000.5193.
Results: A non-probabilistic sample of 400 records was obtained in 10 years at a tertiary hospital in Recife (PE), most of them
with mean ages between 46 and 59 years (45.3%), brown (61.1%), married (79.1%), with education until high school (60.7%),
household professionals (45%), non-smokers (84.9%), who do not consume alcohol (94.9%) and had immediate; reconstruction after mastectomy (70.3%). A lot of patients used the region flaps (45%) and the second most used type of reconstruction was myocutaneous flaps (23%). The subtype molecular most frequently was luminal (60%). Conclusion: The findings
support that patients with high educational levels are likely to undergo immediate breast reconstruction, pointing out
that the socioeconomic level significantly influences the rates of breast reconstruction after mastectomy or setorectomy.