Annelotte van Bommel

150 Fifty-five percent of the responders (n=281) had undergone a mastectomy without IBR, 45% (n=230) had received mastectomy with IBR. Of these latter, 66 patients were still waiting for at least one additional reconstructive breast procedure and were therefore excluded for further analyses, resulting in a total of 164 patients in the mastectomy with IBR group. Patients undergoing IBR were significantly younger, were more often employed, had a lower Body Mass Index (BMI), a lower disease stage and received less frequently radiotherapy compared to patients without IBR ( Table 1 ). In the IBR group, two-stage tissue expander-implant reconstruction (57%) and direct-to- implant reconstruction (32%) were themost often performed breast reconstruction methods. Most patients had not (yet) received a nipple reconstruction when the questionnaire was completed (66%).