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Investigating Experiences With Scarring Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People: Mixed Methods Study

Investigating Experiences With Scarring Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People: Mixed Methods Study

[Transmasculine subreddit, mastectomy scars] I couldn’t stay after returning to my old job because even after 8 weeks I couldn’t handle the heavy lifting. I still can’t do it. I am unemployed right now and the scars are making it harder to find a job. [Transmasculine subreddit, mastectomy scars] Don’t move your arms or carry heavy objects for several weeks or months because this can stretch out the scars. [Transmasculine subreddit, mastectomy scars] I’ve been using hormone patches for about 5‐6 months now.

Nora Yanyi Sun, Kanika Kamal, Alex Sogomon Keuroghlian

JMIR Dermatol 2025;8:e62714

Assessing the Data Quality Dimensions of Partial and Complete Mastectomy Cohorts in the All of Us Research Program: Cross-Sectional Study

Assessing the Data Quality Dimensions of Partial and Complete Mastectomy Cohorts in the All of Us Research Program: Cross-Sectional Study

We created a cohort of 4175 (2.4%) patients with mastectomy procedures and a control cohort of 168,226 (97.6%) female participants who did not have a mastectomy. Out of the 4175 female participants who had mastectomy procedures, 316 (7.6%) had both partial and complete mastectomy procedures. The first occurrence of the procedure code was used for subgroup assignment.

Matthew Spotnitz, John Giannini, Yechiam Ostchega, Stephanie L Goff, Lakshmi Priya Anandan, Emily Clark, Tamara R Litwin, Lew Berman

JMIR Cancer 2025;11:e59298

Exploring the Social Media Discussion of Breast Cancer Treatment Choices: Quantitative Natural Language Processing Study

Exploring the Social Media Discussion of Breast Cancer Treatment Choices: Quantitative Natural Language Processing Study

SNOMED keywords related to BCS or mastectomy were identified by a physician author (DYS). Examples of SNOMED words or phrases used in this analysis include simple mastectomy, bilateral mastectomy, and modified radical mastectomy as mastectomy keywords and lumpectomy, excision biopsy, and segmental mastectomy as BCS keywords. Analyses of paragraphs were based on references to BCS or mastectomy, nonexclusively. Paragraphs containing mentions of both were attributed to both treatments in the analysis.

Daphna Y Spiegel, Isabel D Friesner, William Zhang, Travis Zack, Gianna Yan, Julia Willcox, Nicolas Prionas, Lisa Singer, Catherine Park, Julian C Hong

JMIR Cancer 2025;11:e52886