Mastectomy

In today’s society, there are people that are dealing with a very significant illness. This illness is known as breast cancer. Breast cancer is a very significant disease that many people have been affected by. This disease causes people to go through both physical and emotional pain and stress;which also affects the family while going through the various degrees of treatment that breast cancer leaves on people. Many people know about breast cancer, however people are not informed on how it…

fit this set of expectations that society has decided would define you as a woman. The doctors removed my mother's breasts, the "essences of her feminism", and she struggled with it. This idea is also illustrated in, The Cancer Journals: Lourdes Mastectomy as an Identity, Audre Lorde was shocked to “realized that the attitude towards prosthesis after breast cancer is an index of this society’s attitude towards women in general as decoration and externally defined sex object” (Alshhre, 5). Lorde…

returning. In some cases, a mastectomy may be right for you. A mastectomy is the removal of the whole breast, and there are five types. Simple or total, modified radical mastectomy, radical, partial, and subcutaneous. (“Mastectomy”, 1) A mastectomy would be right for you if the tumor is larger than five centimeters, if multiple attempts to remove the tumor have failed, if lumpectomy plus radiation is not an option, or if it would simply give you peace of mind. (“Mastectomy”,…

Richa Sood NURS 6521 Advanced Pharmacology Walden University August 7, 2014 Breast cancer in women Breast cancer in women For the purpose of this assignment, I chose breast cancer as it is very common and second leading cause of death among cancers in United States, after heart disease. However, due to the improvement in drugs, technology, early detection and better understanding on the disease, the rates are declining as compare to the past. Some of the common risk factors that can…

Breast cancer and neoplasm begin with a damaged part of a cell’s DNA that continues to get transcribed and replicated. According to the National Cancer Institute, 12% of woman will develop breast cancer in their lifetime (2015). The rate of diagnoses of breast cancer has leveled off in this past decade, and the mortality rate has decreased recently. However, it remains the second leading cause of death in women, second to lung cancer (National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of…

are lumpectomy, mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation. The two major ways to treat cancer is lumpectomy and mastectomy. Lumpectomy is the removal of a cancerous tumor from the breast, this usually occurs when cancer is found early and the lump is small (“Breast Cancer” KidsHealth). Mastectomy is when they remove the whole breast, this happens when the cancer cells have spread through the breast into other parts of the body (“Breast Cancer” KidsHealth). Lumpectomy and mastectomy get rid of most…

Breast Cancer Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women. About 2.8 million women that live in United States have a history of breast cancer. The disease can be seen in men, but is more frequently seen in women. To give a better understanding about the cancer, I have decided to talk about the following; the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and awareness of breast cancer. Having a mother who has had breast cancer will double their daughters risk of breast cancer. The first…

Breast Cancer is the disease cause by an uncontrollable amount of non-normal cells that surrounds tissue or areas of the body that originate in cells in the breast. Above all cancer is a very deadly disease, although some have cures, some don’t. Every single day one hundred and eight american women pass away from breast cancer. Breast cancer has many different cures, can be found many different ways, can be hereditary, and can take your life away. According to the American Cancer Society, One…

Misconceptions related to inconsistent education that are existent are instilling fear and anxiety in women, causing them to either have no screenings or treatments provided, or on the other spectrum women are opting for aggressive treatments such as mastectomies for early stage cancer which most times considered overtreatment. “How does one get women to accept less treatment?” (Johnson and Eunjung Cha). Education could possibly be the answer to this question. If women are appropriately…

Today, a radical mastectomy is almost never done and the “modified radical mastectomy” is performed less frequently than before. Most women with breast cancer now have the primary tumor removed, and then have radiation therapy. Stephen Paget, an English surgeon, concluded that cancer cells spread by…