
SALUD MILITAR – Vol.26 Nº 1 – Julio 2004
En nuestro enfoque plural, le ofrecemos un soporte psicológico antes, durante y después de su tratamiento.
Igualmente, las reuniones del grupo de autoayuda de pacientes ya tratadas, las que se realizan en forma periódica
en nuestra unidad, son esenciales en vuestra rehabilitación física, psíquica, laboral y social.
Dentro de los tumores malignos, es en los mamarios donde la medicina más ha avanzado tanto en diagnóstico como
en tratamiento y en consecuencia los resultados de hoy no son los que usted conoce del pasado. Con un
diagnóstico temprano estamos en condiciones de ofrecerle altas tasas de sobrevida, el respeto de su estética y el
apoyo de un grupo que conoce lo que va a enfrentar y está preparado para acompañarla durante el mismo.
La esperamos si fuera necesario.
INFORMATION
THE BREAST DIVISION OF THE
“Hospital Central de las Fuerzas Armadas”
The practice of Mastology has acquired an increased
complexity to the extent in which knowledge and
therapeutic alternatives have developed. This is why
its exercise must be approached in multidisciplinary
units such as the one we form.
Our approach has a triple focus, favoring an early
diagnosis, the maximum oncologic radical approach
that enhances the disease free survival rate and, at the
same time, the preservation of body integrity, esthetics
and the corresponding upper limb function.
Thus, we carry out the instruction for self-examination
through publications and periodic speeches, and
concurrently, we face a systematic mammography
schedule which has increased an early diagnosis.
Upon the presence of suspicious non palpable lesions,
we are proud to be the only ones to have a vacuum
assisted percutaneous biopsy (Mammotome) which
allows to ensure benignity and avoid surgery in half of
the patients as well as to confirm diagnosis and plan a
proper treatment for the rest in a single surgical
procedure. Likewise, we are pioneers in the
development of the Radioguided Occult Lesion
Localization (R.O.L.L.), scintillografically a directed
surgical biopsy that leads to diagnosis with the
minimum breast mutilation.
In six out of ten patients, breast tumors can be treated
with surgical breast-preserving procedures; for the
rest, we have developed a mastectomy with cutaneous
preservation and immediate reconstruction, skin-
sparing mastectomy, achieving the double objective of
the adequate surgical treatment and enhancing
esthetics and femininity of our patients. Last, the
selective axillary resection by means of the sentinel
node, in which we are also exclusive, allows to resect
lymph nodes whenever it is necessary and avoid it
when it is not. This avoids morbidity and sequels for
the arm (edema, pain).
The surgical treatment is part of a global scheme
where systemic therapies (chemotherapy, hormone
therapy) strengthen the oncologic radical value.
Finally, the physical and occupational rehabilitation as
well as the psychological support are part of our
approach, which focuses on the treatment of a human
being and not on a disease.
In our plural focus, we offer psychological support
before, during and after your treatment. Likewise, self-
help group meetings for already treated patients, which
are held periodically in our unit, are essential for your
physical, occupational and social rehabilitation.
Among malignant tumors, breast tumors are the area
in which medicine has advanced most, with reference
to their diagnosis as well as their treatment. As a
consequence, today’s results are not like the ones you
know from the past. With an early diagnosis we can
offer you high survival rates, respect for your esthetics
and support from a group that knows what you are
facing and is prepared to accompany you during that
experience.
We are expecting you, should it be necessary.
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