Vacuum dressing to prevent wound problems after breast cancer surgery
Part of Cancer, Skin clinical trials.
This study tests a special vacuum dressing (negative pressure therapy) to prevent wound problems after complex breast cancer surgery. It's for women who have risk factors for poor healing and are having a mastectomy with immediate reconstruction or a certain breast-conserving surgery.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are a woman 18 or older with invasive or in-situ breast cancer.
- You are having a mastectomy with immediate implant reconstruction or a special breast-conserving surgery (oncoplastic T-shaped mammoplasty).
- You have at least one risk factor for poor wound healing, like obesity (BMI 30+ or cup size E+), active smoking (or quit less than a month ago), diabetes, past radiation to that breast, or long-term corticosteroid use.
- You are not pregnant or breastfeeding and are willing to follow the study schedule.
- You do not have any planned surgery on your other breast at the same time.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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