Breast Cancer Annotated Bibliography Essay
Course project Breast Cancer- annotated bibliography
Sarah
Rasmussen College
Author’s Note This final course project is being submitted on December 14, 2014 for Dr. Deb Bobendrier’s M232/MEA2203 Section 18 Pathophysiology course.
References
Wang, A., Vachon, C., Brandt, K., & Ghosh, K. (2014). Breast density and breast cancer risk: a practical review. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 89 (4), 548-557. doi: 10. 1016/j.mayocp.2013.12.014 This article talks about how density in the breast leads to malignant tumors. It was very eye opening to know that up to 50% of women that have mammograms will have high breast density. The higher density in the breast, the harder it is for a mammogram to find a small tumor. In 2009 in the …show more content…
These listed above are some ideas that were mentioned in this article. If you already have a pre disposition of getting breast cancer than you can try and not drink so much alcohol, watch your weight, and exercise. But doing all that and have a strong family history will not totally clean you of your chances of having breast cancer; it just helps to lower if possible your percentage of having …show more content…
I will be going over one of them, hormone therapy. This type of treatment removes or blocks hormones and how they act. Using hormone therapy stops the cancer cells from growing. This is also used in early stage breast cancer and breast cancer that hormone dependent breast cancer. This treatment plan I wanted to look into more due to a coworker that has early stage breast cancer, also hers is dependent on hormones. It gives me some kind of heads up as to what she might be going through
Sarah
Rasmussen College
Author’s Note This final course project is being submitted on December 14, 2014 for Dr. Deb Bobendrier’s M232/MEA2203 Section 18 Pathophysiology course.
References
Wang, A., Vachon, C., Brandt, K., & Ghosh, K. (2014). Breast density and breast cancer risk: a practical review. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 89 (4), 548-557. doi: 10. 1016/j.mayocp.2013.12.014 This article talks about how density in the breast leads to malignant tumors. It was very eye opening to know that up to 50% of women that have mammograms will have high breast density. The higher density in the breast, the harder it is for a mammogram to find a small tumor. In 2009 in the …show more content…
These listed above are some ideas that were mentioned in this article. If you already have a pre disposition of getting breast cancer than you can try and not drink so much alcohol, watch your weight, and exercise. But doing all that and have a strong family history will not totally clean you of your chances of having breast cancer; it just helps to lower if possible your percentage of having …show more content…
I will be going over one of them, hormone therapy. This type of treatment removes or blocks hormones and how they act. Using hormone therapy stops the cancer cells from growing. This is also used in early stage breast cancer and breast cancer that hormone dependent breast cancer. This treatment plan I wanted to look into more due to a coworker that has early stage breast cancer, also hers is dependent on hormones. It gives me some kind of heads up as to what she might be going through