Quality of life and satisfaction after breast cancer operation.

Purpose: To investigate the quality of life and satisfaction after different operations in patients with breast cancer, which are breast conserving therapy (BCT), mastectomy and reconstruction after breast BCT or mastectomy.

Materials And Methods: 180 patients with breast cancer who were operated from January 2005 to October 2006 were chosen. They presented without local or distant metastasis in this period of time and were asked to complete the EORTC quality of life questionnaire (QLQ-C30), the EORTC breast cancer module questionnaire (QLQ-BR23) and a specific questionnaire regarding satisfaction of postoperative results designed by ourselves.