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After you complete your breast cancer treatment, your cancer care team will still want to watch you closely. It's important to understand your care schedule and go to all of your follow-up appointments.
This clinical practice guideline provides recommendations on the follow-up and management of asymptomatic patients with breast cancer who have completed primary therapy with curative intent. The guideline was originally published in 1997 and updated in 1999 and 2006.
Breast cancer should be viewed as a chronic medical condition even in women who remain disease free, and patients benefit from the approach afforded other chronic conditions in primary care. Family physicians are increasingly the main providers of follow-up care after breast cancer treatment.
3 paź 2022 · The follow-up (FU) visits carried out at the Greater Poland Cancer Centre were assessed for compliance with Polish Society of Clinical Oncology (PTOK) and European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) guidelines. Materials and methods: The database covered 484 women who were treated for breast cancer in the Greater Poland Cancer Centre in 2013.
5 lis 2012 · Regular history, physical examination, and mammography are recommended for breast cancer follow-up. Physical examinations should be performed every 3 to 6 months for the first 3 years, every 6 to 12 months for years 4 and 5, and annually thereafter.
You may have regular follow up after your treatment for breast cancer. This is to check how you are and see whether you have any problems or concerns. In some hospitals, you can arrange follow up appointments when you need them.
Follow-up care after treatment for breast cancer. If you’ve been diagnosed with early-stage or locally advanced (non-metastatic) breast cancer, you’ll finish your main treatments — such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy — and then transition to follow-up (or “survivorship”) care.
