Follow up after breast cancer treatment

These visits are important for the following reasons:

• Ensure full mobilisation and return to normal activities and monitor for problems with shoulder stiffness or swelling of arm.
• Monitor for side effects of treatment.
• Discuss any new information that may affect your care.
• Check for local recurrence of cancer in the breast. Ultrasound assisted clinical examination is useful.
• Check for development of a second tumour in the other breast.
• Audit - it is important to record how effective treatment has been any complications that may occur.