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Breast Cancer Case Studies

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This assessment item is about Karen and the education and management of her Chronic illness, it will be client and family based care to include her partner and her mother with
Karen’s consent. My essay will cover the aetiology and the pathophysiology and risk factors of one of our major public health problems Breast Cancer. It is the most common cancer of women in the world. (Stewart & Wild 2014). Breast cancer can strike all of us and affect families and communities (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2012). Discussion and education with Karen will cover her wound care, psychosocial, phantom breast syndrome and prevention of lymphedema. Malignant breast cancer is a serious illness one in eight females …show more content…

Abnormal cells in the breast form and increase in numbers and produce invasive tumours, consequently these can develop and spread throughout the body and destroy tissue around the breast. Not all tumours are benign. Although not as prevalent in men, they are not exempt from developing breast cancer. Five years ago in 2010 there were only 127 cases of breast cancer in men, but there were over 14,000 new cases of breast cancer in females (Australian Government Cancer
Council, 2015). Some of the risks of breast cancer are smoking, drinking alcohol, being a woman getting older, using oral contraceptives, having children after the age of 30, taking HRT over a long period, not breastfeeding, obesity, high fat diets, environmental and ethnicity, (Othieno-
Abinya, 2015; Binns 2013; Marchbanks 2013; Stewart & Wild 2014)). However having a risk may not mean you are going to get breast cancer. Many women develop breast cancer and do not have any of the contributing risks. (Lemone et al., 2011). Evaluating Karen and her family’s feelings and determining her level of knowledge before educating her in these areas are important as some people may comprehend better than

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