Response to Discussion 1: Rita Bustamante
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Response to Discussion 1: Rita Bustamante
The post is intensively written with the major parts of the discussion is well tackled. The post first presents detailed statistics on the prevalence of breast cancer in the United States as 2015 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancer tumours is not only the United States but also the entire globe. Also, the number of people who succumb to breast cancer is significantly high as compared to the other tumours. The reasons behind the high prevalence are not stated in the post, which is an important detail that would help sensitize the importance of the screening and mammography.
When the prevalence is analyzed from the worldwide level, approximately 500,000 women succumb to the illness. The high numbers are due to late detection of the disease. Although the United States has a high survival rate as compared to other undeveloped countries, the numbers are still significantly high. The reasons are mainly linked to the high exposure to high levels of estrogen throughout the American women’s lifetime. Also, most women in the United States lead to unhealthy lifestyles and tend to resort to using hormone therapy to treat the menopause symptoms increase their risk of getting the tumour. However, agreeable to the post, the tumour can also develop in healthy women, and that calls for sensitization of early detection of the tumours through clinical screening and consistent mammography for all women.
The role of the nursing body in the sensitization of the importance of breast cancer screening is well discussed in the post. The post intensively discusses the reasons for the nursing training incorporating support-based care for the breast cancer patient. The controversy that the risks of contracting breast cancer, especially for those with its genetic mutation have led to the dismissal of the importance of the preventive measures. Agreeably, the nurses should incorporate support-based care since improving the mental health of the patients increases the survival rate and better response to the therapies given.
The paper gives a detailed procedure for the screening and mammography, showing that enough research was done to understand the processes. However, the importance and limitations of the screening processes are not mentioned at all in post. The author, therefore, fails to answer the most critical study question in the discussion. The author should have provided the advantages of the breast cancer screening to bring out the relevance of its relevance in the quest to reduce the risks of developing the tumour and increasing the survival rates for breast cancer patients. The main benefit of the clinical screening of breast cancer is that the illness is detected in its early stages which make it easier to treat increasing the chances of survival and full recovery.
Mammography is vital in identifying any suspicious findings that may be related to breast cancer. Also, the author does not provide the risks associated with the screening processes. Such include false positives and negatives, overtreatment and overdiagnosis. The impacts may consist of avoidable costs and delaying the treatment in the case where there are false negatives. The paper is generally fairly handled but is very insufficient in answering the main study question, which is the importance and limitations of the screening procedures.