Jenny Saldaña, BA
Patient Navigator and Breast Cancer Survivor, Columbia Presbyterian Medical CenterAuthored Items
September 23, 2016 | October 2016 Vol 7, No 9
The tissue expansion process using standard of care, saline-filled expanders is lengthy, inconvenient, and uncomfortable and may lead women to make the decision to decline breast reconstruction. The efficacy and safety of a novel, needle-free, patient-controlled tissue expander using CO2 as the filling medium was compared with the standard of care in the US-based XPAND study.
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