Breast Cancer Screening Benefits

This poster urges the importance of getting examined early so the risk of breast cancer greatly diminishes.

All women should be screened for certain cancers, including breast cancer, cervical cancer, and skin cancer. Your health

Nurse Practitioner Veneta Masson, author of “Why I don’t Get Mammograms” argues the topic of how routine mammograms don’t save lives. Masson being a health care professional has been well educated on maintaining optimum health and preventing disease. Though she may have the knowledge and awareness, she however uses faulty generalizations as to why she does not receive annual mammogram

The North Carolina-Based Breast Cancer Screening Program (NC-BCSP) was questioning if they could increase African-American women’s access to breast cancer screening, would this help women determine their risk factors and seek further screening process? The goal was to decrease the obstructions of the women in North Carolina to everyday health care, but at the same time increase women’s access to breast cancer screening, while making connections that could help women across the state. The evaluated outcomes was to implement an education process so that there was a tracking system that would determine if the participants were at the human health center and clinic for their initial visit or a repeat visitor.

The Every Woman Matters Program was created as a tactic to fix the current suboptimal levels of cancer screening for women in Nebraska. Researchers found that even though low income level women understood the importance of these types of screening, this specific type of comprehension did very little to push women towards getting screened for these types of cancers (Backer et al., 2005). This is of course understandable: women in low income households are more likely to have a host of other stressors and anxieties regarding day to day existence and the task of making ends meet, than women in high income groups. Daily survival getting to work, taking care of one's kids and other obligations leave these women with little time for much else; while the importance of such screenings might be understood, they're often not a high priority. For example, "African-American and low-income women have lower rates of cancer screening and higher rates of late-stage disease than do their counterparts" (Park et al., 2008). This is simply a trend that many medical professionals are aware of and one which needs to be corrected and which is in part one of the reasons that the Every Woman Matters Program was created. All women should participate in cervical and breast cancer screening regardless of income.

Early detection of breast and cervical cancer reduced the burden of disease in women. The practices of Screening shown reduce the level of mortality and improve quality of life. The Every Woman Matters (EWM)stared in 1992 it is a federally-funded program designed to remove barrier to early screening by providing awareness and make screening more financially accessible to woman who have limited or no health insurance. The eligible women receive pay for office visits with associated clinical breast examination, pelvic examination, Papanicolaou smear test, and lab fees (Backer et al., 2004). Age-appropriate mammography and limited number of diagnostic test is also covered under program. In this paper I will

There are several confusing topics for women when it comes to their breast health such as how often they should be screened with a mammogram, what age to start getting their mammograms, or how often they should have a mammogram. One of the newer discussions that has emerged recently is if women should be told that they have dense breast tissue. Several states have even moved a step further and are mandating that women be told this information. I believe that the states should go beyond this when passing the law and require insurance companies to pay for supplemental testing of these women who fall into this category and have additional risk factors.

During the late 1920’s and 1930’s, Hitler and Stalin were leaders of Germany and the Soviet Union respectively. These states were under fascist and communist rule, which essentially were very similar. It was due to their full run of government that resulted in a dictatorial rule, also known as totalitarianism. Civilians’ lives were regulated in every aspect, some of which were their property and the military forces. Both parties used propaganda to bring awareness of their movement’s ideologies to their states in hopes that they would influence a large number of civilians, or if anything, all of them. The most comparable and recognizable aspect of fascism and communism was the fact that both Hitler and Stalin wanted a radical change for

Breast cancer accounted for over 40,000 deaths in the United States in the year 2015. (Siegel, Miller & Jemal, 2015) Many of these deaths could have been prevented with early detection and treatment of the cancer with the use of mammograms. The use of routine mammograms was started in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Though this is the standard of care in todays healthcare, many people are not aware of the need for breast health screenings due to lack of education, economical status or ethnicity. By promoting breast health screenings and educating the populations we serve we can health reduce the number of breast cancer related deaths.

In 2002, the U. S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF, 2002, 2014) issued its’ recommendation statement regarding breast cancer screening for the general population. It looked at the efficacy of five screening methods in reducing breast cancer mortality: film mammography; clinical breast examination (CBE); breast self-examination (BSE); digital mammography; and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Two studies were commissioned: a

Over the past three decades, awareness campaigns have saved women’s lives. By bringing what was originally a hushed conversation to light, countless women have benefitted from routine breast screenings and from the knowledge that breast cancer isn’t an automatic death sentence.

They was an adequate follow up for the participants reasons for not completing the screening, as well as a discussion on what can be done in the future to address these. The discussion for why only 1 out of 10 women with private health insurance followed through with breast cancer screening was not thorough, but this may be the result of a lack of knowledge on this topic. This seems to have been a surprising finding, one no one could have predicted. There is an honest discussion about the application of the health beliefs model to this study. This study found that the health beliefs model was not an adequate predictor of breast cancer screening- perceived benefits, barriers, and susceptibility were not statistically significant predictors of breast cancer screening. These results were supported by previous studies and were not a total surprise, making me question why they would have even chosen to use the health beliefs model to being with. The author attempt to explain these results, and does so with many solid possibilities- especially the idea that varying degrees of poverty will result in different findings. This study looked at women below $6,000 annual income, indicating extreme poverty. The factors affecting women in this income range is probably much different than women in the higher range of poverty level income. The conclusions are logical for the results of the study- their

According to Oeffinger et al., (2015) the primary purpose of a mammography screening program is to help decrease mortality rate that results from a late diagnosis of breast cancer. Early detection is the best treatment plan. The “Let’s Stay Abreast Program” will seek to do the following:

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in women in the United States, after lung cancer. Every year, millions of women over the age of 40 go in for a routine mammogram to help prevent terminal breast cancer by early prognosis. While some very fortunate women will never actually be diagnosed with this cancer, they still undergo this medical test routinely. However, for every eight women there is one that will be diagnosed with some form of breast cancer in their life. It seems as though it is fairly simple; for a known high risk disease, women should take every precaution necessary, such as a mammogram. According to Canadian researchers, and other skeptics, this is not the case. They believe that mammograms may be doing more harm than good, and maybe women should stick to self-exams as opposed to a diagnostic test. This can seem troubling to most women who have been taught for years the importance of their yearly mammogram. So what is the problem?

Although the research of the effects of mammography may be true, having less screenings would lead to more dangers of getting a further progressed disease and having no chance of beating the disease. It is