Breast Cancer Final

A Community Assessment

Inside the Breast Clinic at Roswell Park Cancer Institute
A Community Assessment
Claudia Ames
Empire State College

Table of Contents

Inside the Breast Clinic at Roswell Park Cancer Institute 1

Claudia Ames 1

Empire State College 1

Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………………….2

Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..3

Community Overview……………………………………………………………………………..4

Windshield Survey……………………………………………………………………………..….6

Epidemiology…………………………………………………………………………………….14

Population Aggregate…………………………………………………...……………………….16

Political Issues………………………………………………………………………..………….17

Community Diagnosis…………………………………………………………………………...17

Community Resources…………………………………………………………………………..17

Community Health Nurses Role………………………………………………………………...19

Summary…………………………………………………………………………………………21

Reference List……………………………………………………………………………………22

Introduction
In the past few months, I have been working in the Breast Clinic at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). The community served is women facing breast cancer. As health care professionals, we are included in the community as we share a common interest. RPCI contributes to the community by providing services to the population by researching and providing treatment for breast cancer.
The women treated in this population have already been screened and ether diagnosed with breast cancer or has been found to have suspicious imaging. This puts them in a high risk population.
About 1 in 8 U.S. women (just under 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. In 2011, an estimated 230,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 57,650 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer (U.S. Breast Cancer Statistics, 2012). According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 210,203 women in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, and 40,589 women in the

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