Lung Cancer Decision-Making Process

In their study, they were able to pull data on the caregivers involved and follow their health status as well as the status of the terminally ill patient. This data did not prove to be very helpful as even though poor health was reported in the caregivers they could not say this was not in part due to the older age of the majority of caregivers. They found the need for health professionals to focus their treatment not only on the patient but also on the health and well-being of the person or persons caring for the client. They suggested several ways to accomplish this through teamwork and support. Overall, their study seems to prove the need for paying attention to

Ever since my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer in when I was in middle school, I’ve developed an interest in medicine and the treatment of diseases. Then, last summer, my Chinese teacher was diagnosed with the same type of lung cancer. What I found peculiar is that both of these important women in my life were non-smokers and Chinese; so perhaps this type of cancer is race-associated. A recent publication from the National Cancer Institute seems to back my hypothesis, suggesting that Asian women possessed a unique chromosome associated with lung cancer. Coming from a cancer survivor’s family, I hope to continue to research this correlation and, someday, develop a quick and accurate diagnostic kit or device for cancer identification or implement lung cancer risk screening for Asian American women, similar to the breast cancer risk screenings for women. As a future biomedical engineer,

     Lung cancer is the most common cancer-related cause of death among men and women. Lung cancer can be undetected for many years causing it to become more dangerous and possibly fatal. There is not cure for lung cancer or any cancer, but if detected in an early stage the lung cancer can be detected, treated, and hopefully terminated. There are many new and developing treatments being tested now that may save lives in the future. Through understanding what the lung cancer is, doctors can easily diagnose and assess cancer patients.

The human body is designed so that each part is dependent on the other for one or the other reason. There is a delicate balance to the distribution of functions and the way in which each system defenses itself against any unmentionable disease or ailment.

Brief Description: Lung cancer, as with all cancers, is an uncontrollable increase of cells. It happens within the lung tissue, but it could also go on to affect other nearby tissue and spread to further out than just the lungs.

Family members typically help make decisions about medical care for the patient. It is important to develop rapport with the patient’s family and include important family members in treatment planning. Family members

Before recruiting the participants and staff for the intervention, hospital permission will need to be addressed. This includes permission from the hospital as well making sure the privacy rule and patient protected information regarding HIPAA are strictly followed. In order to gather participants for the intervention, staff within both hospitals will notify database cancer patients and their loved ones through calls or face-to-face for nursing staff. Information and details about the study will also be included in their hospital stay packet or information chart. If the patient is associated with either hospital, but is only being cared for at home, we expect that they be notified either by phone call or during their check-ups or treatments at the hospital. Oncology and cancer center staff that can be notified and are able to share brief information about the significance and protocol of this study.

I will be discussing two lung cancer cases and the evidence used to decide patient’s management.

In 2015, 221,000 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed out of these cases. An estimated (86,380 in men and 71,660 women) will not survive this disease. Lung cancer is the leading cause of death out of all cancerous circumstances far exceeding that of the colon, breast, and prostate combined. As a result of the final decision made earlier this year by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to cover lung cancer screening with low-dose CT More men and women are expected to be diagnosed with lung cancer.

In recent years, Hospice care has risen to popularity and is being widely used among many terminally – ill patients and their families. Hospice care supports patients and their families emotionally and physically through the dying process. Imagine being told that you have a terminal disease and that you have a limited amount of time before you die. This stress and hopelessness can be relieved by a hospice care team, that would be there for you and your family. With hospice care, both the patient and caregiver would be provided with support and optimal care. The goal of this paper is to evaluate caregivers’ perceptions and experiences concerning the care of a terminally ill loved one, and to compare the satisfaction of patients and or caregivers with and without access to hospice care programs.

This paper discusses in distinct detail the pathology of lung cancer, specifically malignant tumors. This investigation into the cancer touches on many different subjects that include: the history of the disease and how it came to be so prevalent, it’s cellular origins, how it is diagnosed within a patient, the different treatments used to fight it, and the survival rates for people with any sort of lung cancer. The paper also goes in depth about the use of x-rays and how they are used to find lung cancer. There are many resources used for this paper and they are cited as necessary.

Therefore, content analysis was performed on Palliative Care and oncologic visit notes. Consequently, there were 151 patients enrolled at Massachusetts general Hospital from Boston, the oncology clinic. These patients were just being diagnosed with metastatic non– small cell lung cancer. The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group had patient’s eligibility who were diagnosed within 8 weeks with the achievement level of 0 to 2, as they completed their questionnaire in English. However, the participants were randomly allocated as 1:1 ratio to have early Palliative Care cohesively with ordinary oncologic care or with alone ordinary oncologic care. The Palliative Care clinicians were conducting the visits which was flexible and suitable for the individual patients. The documentation of content was done by Palliative Care clinicians of clinical encounter in the electronic health record after each visit. The study has been approved by the institutional review board of the “Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer

Lung cancer has impacted many people’s lives in the world today. Lung cancer is the leading cause of death caused by cancer in the United States (Lewis, 2014, pg. 535). The diagnosis of lung cancer is proceeded by a low cure rate and a high mortality rate. Diagnosis of lung cancer increases the person’s level of physical distress, psychological distress and social isolation (Johnston, 2013). Due to the low cure rate, palliative care becomes essential after the diagnosis of incurable/inoperable lung cancer. In palliative care, the nurses and team of physicians must work together. Palliative care allows the suffering person to have a reduction in hospital stays, more time spent at home with family, and greater patient satisfaction; it also allows the patient to have a voice in the dying process (Dale, 2011). Early access to palliative care increases the persons understanding of his/her illness, and facilitates coping and symptom management (Johnston, 2013). In palliative care, it is important for the nurse to initiate and a patient-centered relationship (Dale, 2011.). The role of the nurse is very important in palliative care.

Stella is a previously healthy 47 year-old woman. She has been experiencing chest pain and a persistent cough. She thinks that she saw a bit of blood during the last coughing fit. She has tried Tylenol cold and flu and drinking cold water, because she suspected she had a cold.

(Transition: we have discussed the causes, lets look at the risk factors including some environmental ones.)