Breast Cancer

By:Christopher

Kline

Thesis Statement

Breast Cancer can be a life threatening disease but with awareness and knowledge the chances for survival can greatly increase.

Presentation Overview

Risk factors Symptoms Preventions Screen testing Self-exams

Personal Relevance

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Audience

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What is breast cancer you ask?

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Can Breast Cancer Spread?

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Risk factors - Age

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Risk Factors - Childbirth

Being older at the birth of your first child

Never giving birth Not breast feeding

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Risk Factors – Birth Control

Using birth control pills , also called oral contraceptives.

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Risk Factors – Alcohol Use

Drinking alcohol (more than one drink a day).

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Risk Factors – Diet & Exercise

Not getting exercise on a regular basis Being overweight.

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Diet & Exercise

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Risk Factors – Personal History

Personal history of breast cancer Treatment with radiation therapy to the

breast/chest Long term use of hormone replacement

therapy (estrogen and progesterone)

LaRusso

Risk Factors – Family History

Family history of breast cancer (mother, sister, daughter)

Breast cancer gene

LaRusso

Symptoms

New lump in breast or underarm (armpit)

Thickening or swelling of breast Irritation or dimpling of breast skin. Redness or flaky skin in the nipple area

or the breast Pulling in of the nipple or pain in the

nipple area McKinnell

Symptoms Continued

Nipple discharge other than breast milk, including blood.

Any change in the size or the shape of the breast

Pain in any area of the breast

McKinnell

Prevention

Screening Weight control Know your family history of breast

cancer. Find out the risks and benefits of

hormone replacement therapy. Limit the amount of alcohol you drink.

Nardo

Self-examinations

Nardo

Clinical Exam

Takes place in doctor’s office

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Nardo

Mammograms

X-ray of the breast Should get one every year after age 40

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Mammograms video

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Diagnosis

Breast ultrasound Diagnostic mammogram Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Biopsy

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Stage 0 Cancer

No evidence of tumor Does not include lymph nodes

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Stage 1 Cancer

Tumors up to 2 centimeters Not spread to lymph nodes

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Stage 2A Cancer

Tumor less than 2cm with cancer in lymph nodes

Tumor 2-5cm with no cancer in lymph nodes

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Stage 2B Cancer

Tumor 2 – 5 cm at the largest dimension spreads to the lymph nodes

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Stage 3A Cancer

Five groupings of tumors 2 – 5cm Various stages that spread to the

lymph nodes

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Stage 3B Cancer

Tumors of any size that extend directly to the chest wall or skin

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Stage 4 Cancer

Tumor with any lymph nodes involved Spreads to distant sites

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Stages Video

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Treatment

Surgery

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Chemotherapy

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Hormonal therapy

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Biological Therapy

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Radiation

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Questions to ask doctor if you have breast cancer

Has my breast cancer spread?

What is the stage of my cancer and what does that mean?

What treatment choices do I have?

What treatment do you recommend?

Murphy

Men can get Breast Cancer too?

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Showing Support

Showing your support

Volunteering Activities Advertising support

Murphy

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Paying For Care

Groups ORGANIZATIONS

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Emotions

Anger Upset Frustrated

Dreyer

My Application

Questions Interviews Website

Questions asked to breast cancer patients

How did you find out that you had breast cancer?

What was going through your mind when you were notified that you were diagnosis with breast cancer?

How did you tell your family that you had breast cancer?

How old were your when you were diagnosis with breast cancer?

Questions Continued

How did your family react when you told them about you being diagnosis with Breast Cancer?

How did this change your relationship with your family?

Was your family there for you the entire time you were going through the Breast Cancer Procedures?

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My Website

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Dreyer, Zoann. Living with Cancer. New York: Infobase Publishing Inc., 2008. Print.

Fredericks, Carrie. Breast Cancer. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2007. Print. Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders.

LaRusso, Laurie. “Breast Cancer.” Conditions and Procedures InBrief (Sept. 2009). Rpt. in Breast Cancer. Consumer Health Complete. Web. 3 Dec. 2009.

McKinnell, Robert G. Prevention of Cancer. Ed. Donna M. Bozzone. New York: Infobase Publishing Inc., 2008. Print. The Biology of Cancer.

Murphy, Gerald P., Lois B. Morris, and Dianne Lange. Informed Decisions: The Complete Book of Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery. New York: Penguin Books U.S.A Inc., 1997. Print.

Nardo, Don. Diseases and Disorders: Breast Cancer. San Diego, CA. 2002. Print.

Thackery, Ellen, et al., Eds. The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer: A Guide To Cancer and Its Treatments. Vol. 1. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002. Print.