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Infections after breast cancer surgery

More than one person in 20 in the context of the chest after surgery cutting of infections among sites, according to a study published Monday, a frequent complication of thought.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the course of infection distance of thoracic surgery at 2 per cent, whereas in previous investigations anywhere between 1 percent and 28 percent.

In two years, the study published in the edition of this month of Archives of Surgery, 50, or 5.3 percent, almost 950 patients developed infections within one year of its proceedings, and this is within and outside the hospital. The average time between surgery and the infection was 47 days.

“The surgical site infection rates in the chest after the operation seemed far more important than those reported nationally, the incidence of 2%, much higher than expected, which is unique to surgical procedures,” Margaret Olsen of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis wrote your report.

Olsen asked to exercise the utmost vigilance hospitals, ensuring good preventive antibiotics administered before the operation, the maintenance of strict hand hygiene and to ensure removal of the wound drains.

The cost for the monitoring of health care are widespread, but it was confirmed by the study of approximately $ 4000 per patient.

Infections were at the heart of the costs of emergency an increase of drug-resistant staph infections contract both inside and outside hospitals.

About one in eight women in the study, which removes a cancerous breast, and was then to reconstruct the breast implant developed an infection. The infection was 7% among those in the reconstruction of the chest, with tissues of the abdomen, which was also an area where infections impressed.

Cancer prevention

According to the doctor in the hospital where his father was surgery, one of the reasons why some people from cancer and others do not, their immune system.

The doctor says there are 3 basic ways to strengthen the immune system:

1st Sleep enough. How much sleep is enough, you should feel for themselves. Mainly, you are no nights!
2nd Getting enough: it allows a good night rest and helps stimulate your immune system. Why? Because we are human, built, in order to move “rather than sit behind a computer screen all day.
3rd Make sure that your emotional life is positive.

This is easier said than done, but it is each of us in the amount of 2 above steps so.

New breast cancer testing

A new molecular test test improves the accuracy of the search for cancer in the sentinel lymph nodes in the node biopsy, according to the results of the audit Saturday, researchers from San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

The results of this study have shown that genes Search IFP-assay test, developed by Veridex LLC from the FDA in mid-July, about 10 percent more sensitive than conventional histology and microscopic examination in the search for signs of the tumor during a cell biopsy of the sentinel lymph nodes.

One of the challenges of the sentinel lymph node biopsy is a study of the pathology of the lymph nodes must be done, while off the operation to judge whether a tumor in the Sentinel nodes. Traditionally, a surgeon of sentinel lymph node biopsy with the elimination of less than 5 percent of the volume of lymph nodes during a stop in intra-operative surgery. The small knot is then frozen and examine under a microscope for the presence of cancer cells. When cancer cells are found in the nodes, the surgeon may remove from the rule during the biopsy of the lymph nodes.

But too often the result of this review are imprecise, the patient prior to the physical and emotional stresses of returning to the operating room for another surgical procedure of removing the lymph nodes for cancer cells.

The molecular genetic test Search trial, the FDA has approved as a substitute for the failure of the party froze method of examination of sentinel lymph node biopsy for one, it is a method ultra-fast, which is a Genetic testing for the detection of the search for tumor cells in lymph nodes During the intra-operative of the judgement of the surgery. Researchers report that this new technique is more sensitive frozen without particularity.