Reconstruction immediate or delay in SUS hospital

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study was 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 age
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%). 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