Quality life evaluation after mastectomy or Quart

Breast cancer is a worldwide diffused disease and represents the most common tumor among women. Due to great improvements in prevention protocols and imaging, most patients are diagnosticated with non-advanced disease and can either  be treated with mastectomy or quadrantectomy/lumpectomy plus adjuvant radiotherapy (QUART). Both procedures yield similar outcomes in terms of disease free survival, hence greater attention is been drawn towards improving patients’ quality of life  following treatment. The purpose of the present retrospective, monocentric study is to assess whether  there is a significant difference between the radical (mastectomy with immediate reconstruction) and conservative (QUART) ways of treating  breast cancer in terms of patient’s perception of disease and quality of life using the BREAST-Q questionnaire.