Women believe that their physician would understand the difference between a major health problem and something that failed to present any risk to their health. This is a particular problem where the apples with breast cancer. Female patients rely on doctors to get all the appropriate tests to find cancers that may be present in the initial stages can be achieved. A lump in the breast lead to worry immediately. And here is where the doctor can do the right thing or the wrong thing. Most doctors recognize that the right thing is to do a test to determine whether the lump is cancerous. The reason most doctors agree that this is the right thing because the doctors were unsure whether the lump is cancerous or benign after only on physical examination (even when taken together with other factors such as the woman's age and family history).
Approximately eighty percent of a number of issues related to the breast is not caused by breast cancer. Additionally, the majority of new breast cancer cases occur in women older than fifty. It is therefore not surprising that some doctors will diagnose the abnormal findings of clinical breast examination, especially with younger patients, as only a cyst and not from breast cancer. Statistics that support such a diagnosis.
Unfortunately, this is not the end of the story. If breast cancer is found before it can reach the final stage (ie, stage 0, stage I or stage II), the 5-year survival is usually more than eighty percent. 5-year survival rate is a statistical measure used by cancer specialists to distinguish the fraction of patients who survive cancer to exceed 5 years after detection. Therefore, the five-year survival rate above 80% means that, statistically, more than 80 of every 100 patients with less advanced stages of breast cancer will, with proper care, survive the disease for at least five years beyond detection.
If breast cancer is not detected until it reaches stage III (usually involving larger tumors in the breast or spread of cancer to lymph nodes), five-year survival rate drops to about 54%. For stage IV (generally involve a greater mass of cancer that five cm or spread of cancer to the bones or organs far away), a five-year survival rate is about 20%.
It is estimated that one in eight women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime. Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women 2. More than 190,000 women are expected to be newly diagnosed with invasive breast cancer this year. In addition, more than 49,000 women will die from breast cancer this year. Given that women whose breast cancer is detected and treated at an early stage have a better hope than eighty percent survived cancer for more than five years after diagnosis, the question must be asked is what percentage of those forty thousand or more women who will pass the disease this year if it is not likely to continue to live their lives if their cancer is detected early.
The challenge is that some doctors act as if the good that they can determine whether a mass in her breast was cancerous or benign only by manual inspection or that the young woman of fifty who have no family history of breast cancer so it is not possible to have breast cancer that does not exist the need to conduct diagnostic tests to exclude the possibility of cancer when she had a lump in her breast. Because most doctors would agree that women notice a lump in the breast should be followed by diagnostic tests, for example, a untrasound, mammogram, aspiration or biopsy. Just by using one or more of these tests can be safely ruled out cancer
When a doctor diagnoses a patient's breast mass in women as nothing more than benign fibroid cysts based solely on clinical breast examination, the doctor places the patient in danger of not learning she had breast cancer metastasizes. Not perform the proper diagnostic tests, including imaging studies such as a mammogram or ultrasound, or sampling, such as biopsy or aspiration, may amount to a departure from accepted standards of medical care and may take the case of medical malpractice.
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