Answer:
The nurse should say that these sensations dissipate over several months and usually resolves after 1 year.
Explanation:
Currently, one of the main ways to fight breast cancer is with tumor removal surgery. This surgery can be of two types, being breast-conserving surgery, or mastectomy.
Mastectomy consists of the removal of all breast tissue, including the nipples, but not the removal of auxiliary lymph nodes or the muscle tissue under the breast. Lymph nodes can be removed using another procedure, in the same surgery, if necessary. Hospital discharge usually takes place the day after the surgery.
After surgery it is common for the patient to feel numbness on the side where the surgery was performed. This numbness can extend throughout the arm. However, this symptom is normal and will be felt for some time, but its frequency decreases after a few weeks and disappears completely after one year.
Answer:
The sensations are normal after surgery. They are caused by damage to the nerves which innervated the surgical sites or point of inversion.
However you will experience this for months before it disappear or subsides,but its normally take up-to a year for it to completely disappear.
