Breast Health Care at Magee Women International

Mission: To create a healthier future for children and woman throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research

With over seven years of experience in her field at Yale Hospital and in Healthcare Insurance, her unremitting compassion and dedication to her cause persists with the role as a Community Outreach Education Coordinator at the Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity.

As a child, growing up in a low income household has made me humble and attentive to other’s situations. Similarly, my South Asian family has instilled a strong nature to serve others, which is the reason I have been involved in service learning activities throughout my undergraduate career, such as LIFT – Chicago and Refugee One. Even post-graduation, my work at Wekaw caters to urban underserved populations. In graduate school, I wish to continue this involvement in campus organizations which enforce diversity inclusion, whether it is joining a volunteering club aiding community populations or conducting research with immigrants. This is one aspect of diversity I can contribute to Rosalind Franklin University, and is also why my professional goal is to work in a community hospital serving diverse populations.

The Lawler family has a history with a specific type of cancer, Breast cancer. When Deb was in high school, she watched her mother fight through breast cancer and Deb’s grandmother died from breast cancer before she was born. Her uncle Bob was just diagnosed with breast cancer before his 50th birthday, and her cousin Katherine was diagnosed with the cancer when she was 33. Now that Deb is 33 years old, she has been wanting to know her chances of being diagnosed. When Deb had first brought up the idea about getting tested, her family was split on advice for her. Deb’s father encouraged her and her siblings to be tested, but her brother John really did not know how to feel about the testing, her sister was undecided about how she felt, but thought that her results could have benefits for her children in the future. Her mother was silent when the topic came up in conversation, and Deb’s cousin Lynn, refused to even discuss the subject. Deb’s Aunt Sue, was vocal about her opinion and was very

California Highway Patrol officers on Thursday were investigating a carjacking after the driver of a pink tow truck dedicated to an Arcata breast cancer center was forced to pull over along Highway 96 and robbed at gunpoint.

Mission: Advance the health and safety of women and girls with a focus on disease prevention and wellness. (cdc.gov/women)

I am interning at Center for American Progress, which is a progressive policy think tank, under their Women’s Health and Rights program. My main focus will be researching policy related to women’s health care and reproductive justice. Through this internship, I hope to gain hands on experience with policy and research related to women’s rights, and learn how this can actually make a difference in the status of women in the United States. Just from my first two days, I can tell I am going to have to learn how to research efficiently and effectively if I want to go into this field. I have never done very rigorous research, so this will be a great learning experience for me. I have also already learned a lot more about health care policy for women in the United States from my research, so I hope to gain a decent amount of knowledge on that subject during my time here. Professionally, I hope to make connections with not only my supervisors and co-workers in the Women’s Health and Rights department, but also people from other departments of the organization, such as the Economics department and LGBT department. That way my connections will not be isolated to just one field of study.

Volunteering at Sharewood Clinic during the UMB-Tufts Winter Enrichment Program 2014 was an important clinical exposure for me. This student run clinic is located in the basement of a Church in Malden, MA. The cooperation between the students for setting up the clinic was a reminder of the camaraderie in a clinical setting. Under the assistance of a first-year medical student, I was able to interview many low-income immigrant families and even perform a complete physical exam on them through the knowledge I gained throughout the program. Through this experience, I saw the importance of social support in augmenting the effects of the medicine. Thus, the next step would be to learn the intricate and technical know-how of the medical profession

Healey and Zimmerman state (2010) that an innovative program will require not only team effort, but input from community leaders as well as collaborative partners, that will aid in the development, implementation, evaluation of a community education campaign, as well as the program continuance, including funding. The campaign should be built constructed on strong and understandable messages, so that the target population can take action and pass on the message from its memorable key components. An effective campaign then, will devise under the campaign logo what the problem needs to be changed, how the campaign will go about making this change, the consequences of not taking action, and the action to be taken to achieve the message of the proposed campaign (UN Women, 2012).

While interning at the Nueces Public Health District, I assist organized programs and events such as health fares, Go Red for Women, and wrote monthly health articles and post daily health articles on their social media sites. I educated people on health care concerns to widen their horizons on the ill effects of not maintaining a healthy lifestyle and encourage them to adopt positive attitudes towards their personal well-being.

Evidence-based practice according to Stevens (2013) began when nursing recognized a gap between what we know and what we do regarding the care of patients. Grove, Gray, & Burns (2015) noted that the goal of evidence-based practice was to include the patient and family taking an active role in their health as well as nursing to provide the best possible quality care in a safe fashion with cost effectiveness. Evidence-based practice nursing was utilized in a study by Kratzke, Wilson, & Vilchis, (2013) that reached out to rural women regarding breast cancer prevention, information seeking behaviors and interest with the use of the internet, cell phone and text messaging.

Problem: Breast Cancer Incidence Rates have been on the rise since 1975 and so has the cost of treatment which has come with it. (Preventative)

Accountable for the vast majority of cancer deaths, metastasis is the complex process by which the cancer cells spread from the primary site to distant sites throughout the body by way of increased tumor invasiveness. Tumor cells persist in replication and may inadequately differentiate into specialized cells as they attain an aggressive manner. Given that it is among the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the United States, approximately 1 in 8 women and 1 in 1,000 men in America may develop breast cancer throughout their life. Via the bloodstream or lymphatic system, main sites of metastasis in breast cancer are the bone, brain, liver, and lung. In view of the fact that breast cancer is immunogenic, tumor development and progression may be directly associated with immunosuppressive factors. On account of an expansion or increase of activation in CD8+ T cells and inhibition or decrease in myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), the tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) may allow for immune suppression in breast cancer patients. In a similar manner, standard immunotherapy and checkpoint blockade brings about an optimal clinical response in the regulation of immunity. Scientific research and publications regarding mutations on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes will be discussed in this term paper to reflect on the lengths of multiple aspects of breast cancer metastasis by way of cellular processes of clinical patterns in the tumor microenvironment. The assessment studies may provide

When we have diseases or don’t feel well, we tend to seek treatments and try to cure it as soon as possible. For this disease, there are multiple of reliable treatments and ways to cure this disease. This disease hunts women worldwide, and it’s the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S Life can be really difficult and no one wants any sickness or diagnosed with such a hard-to-cure disease like cancer. It’s the most common cancer in women in the U.S and many countries also. Breast cancer is not a deadly disease like prostate cancer that so much harder to cure. Death rates have been going down since 1989, due to more and more ways that can impact this cancer. Due to the public understands more on breast cancer by doing research, and the advance medicine makes breast cancer easy to cured. In the following paragraphs, I will be explaining on some of the risk factors, prevention, and screening on breast cancer that a woman can do to get ready and be aware of this cancer.

One of the most common malignancy among women is Breast cancer. Many neoplastic deaths have been witnessed because of the Breast cancer. It holds the stats of effecting about 10% of the women all over the world at some stage of their life [1]. The threat of Breast cancer starts from the puberty stage and rises gradually till the peri- menopausal years when it has reached to its maximum level of occurrence [2] . Speaking about the statistics in United States alone one in eight women over their lifetime has the risk of developing breast cancer. It is considered as one of the most threatening cancer among women. About one in three cancer diagnosed it is found to be breast cancer. The data shows that conditions has been worst as the incidence rate keeps on increasing, with a survival rate of 88% after five years from diagnosis and the survival rate is recorded as 80% after ten years of diagnosis. Considering of the flow up process, an early prediction of the breast cancer is the key to fight this disease. The number of false positive and false negative decisions can be considerably reduced using data mining techniques [1].