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Just as an FYI: Women can also have some loss of sexual function, either physically (due to ligation of the 4th intercostal nerve that supplies the nipple), psy
by rgejman 13y ago
Just as an FYI: Women can also have some loss of sexual function, either physically (due to ligation of the 4th intercostal nerve that supplies the nipple), psychologically or both.
- jacquesm 13y agoIt is also possible that due to a mastectomy menopause onset is accelerated.
- rgejman 13y agoI wasn't familiar with that. Is that stress-related? Mastectomy without chemo should not induce menopause, as far as I understand the physiological processes at work. If the patients are also being treated with tamoxifen or other estrogen receptor antagonists then the menopause is, I believe, reversible.
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- hashmymustache 13y agocertainly, and I didn't intend to minimize it, just to highlight the lack of awareness of the deleterious effects of prostate cancer treatments given the oft cited sense of disfigurement from mastectomies. both are terrible for the patient.