Dr. Rosa E Cuenca MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
301 W 18th St Suite 101 Mount Pleasant TX, 75455Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Rosa Cuenca is a surgical oncologist practicing in Mount Pleasant, TX. Dr. Cuenca specializes in diagnosing, staging and treating cancer-related symptoms. Surgical oncologists also decide if the patient is a candidate for surgery or other cancer treatments based on certain factors such as age, physical fitness and other possible coexisting medical conditions
Education and Training
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University 1986
Provider Details
Dr. Rosa E Cuenca MD's Expert Contributions
How long is the recovery from a mastectomy?
Recovery from mastectomy is not too difficult. That said, everyone has different responses to surgical pain. If your surgeon is only taking a sentinel node biopsy rather than all of the lymph nodes in the axilla, you can expect less pain. Most patients have good pain control with oral pain medications. Expect most of the pain in the inner arm and armpit which will get better every day. Some surgeons inject local anesthesia that lasts several days and this helps with pain as well. Some patients report using very little pilas for pain. READ MORE
Is it better to have open or closed biopsy?
A closed biopsy is best, because it is an outpatient procedure, requiring local anesthesia, leaves a minimal skin opening, has less risk of infection, and does not damage the local lymphatic channels around the lump. This is important because we use those lymphatic channels to map out the test to check for tumor spread into your arm pit nosed, and this is crucial information in planning for cancer treatment. It also less expensive as open biopsy is a surgical procedure, often done in the operating room which costs much more. READ MORE
Are surgical consultations used for women receiving mastectomies?
The relationship between a patient and a surgeon is a very important one, as important as the one between medical oncologist and patient. The training, technical approach, and options for best procedure need to be fully discussed prior to proceeding with any surgery. It is also a time to ask questions about the surgery, assess the surgeon’s experience with cases such as yours, and what outcomes they report. It is a time to see how that surgeon’s OR works, what complications and recovery time can be expected, when to return to work, and to plan any pre-surgical testing that may be required. It is important to know what the outcomes of which surgery is done, so informed consent can be truly achieved. This is vital to the patient-surgeon relationship. It is also time to interview that surgeon, see how they interact with you and your family, how their office works, and how they support you, as you will be seeing them frequently after your surgery. What procedure you “need” when you have Breast Cancer is best decided with your surgeon, as the surgeon is trained to evaluate surgical treatments and their outcomes, and can best guide you through the current recommendations for these treatments. Often, there are options to avoid mastectomy, and Breast Conserving Surgery May be a better option for many reasons. If mastectomy is truly the best treatment, then options and timing for reconstruction should be discussed, as well. Only you and an experienced surgeon can make these critical decisions with full disclosure of risks and benefits. These discussions should be held with a surgeon rather than a medical physician. READ MORE
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Characterization of GRO alpha, beta and gamma expression in human colonic tumours: potential significance of cytokine involvement.
- A clinical review of PDT for cutaneous malignancies.
- Photodynamic therapy of the intact breast.
- Transoral repair of a rare basioccipital meningocele in a neonate: case report.
- Incest and physician responsibility.
- Endometrial carcinoma associated with breast carcinoma: low incidence with tamoxifen use.
- Doxorubicin encapsulated in sterically stabilized liposomes is superior to free drug or drug-containing conventional liposomes at suppressing growth and metastases of human lung tumor xenografts.
- Orthotopic engraftment of human lung tumours in SCID mice for the study of metastasis.
- Colovaginal anastomosis: a unique complication of end-to-end anastomosis stapler use in low anterior resection.
Treatments
- Skin Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Goiter
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