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Table 6 Satisfaction with different aspects of the operated breast for patients who wished to have contralateral surgery for symmetry

From: Patient satisfaction after unilateral oncoplastic volume displacement surgery for breast cancer, evaluated with the BREAST-Q™

Would you like to have a procedure of the contralateral breast for symmetry?a

Satisfaction with aspect of the operated breasta

Yes (n = 13)

No (n = 101)

p value

Satisfiedb

Dissatisfied

Satisfied

Dissatisfied

Appearance of the operated breast

10 (76.9%)

3 (23.1%)

92 (91.1%)

9 (8.9%)

0.139

Size of the operated breast

8 (66.7%)

4 (33.3%)

92 (91.1%)

9 (8.9%)

0.032*

Shape of the operated breast

8 (66.7%)

4 (33.3%)

94 (93.1%)

7 (6.9%)

0.017*

NAC positioning

10 (83.3%)

2 (16.7%)

94 (93.1%)

7 (6.9%)

0.224

NAC appearance

8 (72.7%)

3 (27.3%)

90 (89.1%)

11 (10.9%)

0.140

Symmetry

4 (33.3%)

8 (66.7%)

86 (85.1%)

15 (14.9%)

< 0.001*

Appearance of scar

9 (69.2%)

4 (30.8%)

86 (86.9%)

13 (13.1%)

0.109

Skin sensitivity

7 (58.3%)

5 (41.7%)

82 (82.0%)

18 (18.0%)

0.068

  1. Descriptive statistics of dichotomized answers from the study-specific questionnaire, sub grouped into women who wished to have contralateral surgery compared to those who did not. Presented as count, percentage of sup group in brackets
  2. Fishers exact test was used to find differences between patients who wished to have contralateral surgery for symmetry and those who did not. p value < 0.05 is considered to represent a significant difference between groups
  3. aNo missing values were included
  4. bSatisfied defined as score of “satisfied” or “very satisfied” and dissatisfied defined as a score of “not entirely satisfied” or “dissatisfied” for the aspect of the operated breast evaluated