METHOD FOR MONITORING OF POSTOPERATIVE PATIENTS WITH BREAST CANCER STAGE I AND II

摘要

The method for the monitoring of postoperative patients with breast cancer stage I and II comprises the complex examination at specified time after surgery. The risk factors of distant metastases are assessed, and the groups of the increased risk are delineated. In patients without risk factors, the tumor marker blood content is assayed. When the tumor marker blood content increases at any specified time of examination, X-ray examination of the lungs and ultrasound examination of the liver are performed followed by osteoscintigraphy in the case of the ambiguous results obtained with the use ofthe previous techniques. Anyway, osteoscintigraphy is performed right after the surgery. When the remote metastases are found, the additional treatment is assigned.