Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Characteristic | |
| Age (yr), mean (SD) | 57.73 (±9.78) |
| Time since cancer diagnosis (yr) mean (SD) | 7.26 (±6.88) |
| Breast Surgery type n (%) | |
| Mastectomy | 76 (73.78) |
| Lumpectomy/WLE | 25 (24.27) |
| NSM and implant | 2 (1.94) |
| Axilla surgery type n (%) | |
| ALND | 99 (96.11) |
| SNB | 2 (1.94) |
| Unknown | 2 (1.94) |
| Adjuvant therapy n (%) | |
| Radiotherapy | 84 (81.55) |
| Taxane chemotherapy | 62 (60.19) |
WLE Wide Local Excision, NSM Nipple Sparing Mastectomy, ALND Axillary Lymph Node Dissection, SNB Sentinel Node Biopsy, yr year, n number