Women believe that their physicians will realize the difference between a serious health problem and something that does not present a danger to their health. One area where this is particularly true with breast cancer. Women rely on doctors to perform any appropriate tests to diagnose the possible presence of cancer in its early stages can be achieved. A lump in the breast caused immediate concern. This is where the doctor can do the right thing or the wrong thing. In general, physicians agreed that the right thing is to do tests to find out whether the lump was cancerous. The reason most doctors admit that this is the right action is due to the fact that doctors can not ascertain whether the lump is cancerous or benign after just doing a physical exam.
Approximately 80% of breast problems are not related to the consequences of breast cancer. In addition, some of the new diagnosis of breast cancer occur in women older than fifty. It is therefore not surprising that a number of physicians would conclude that the abnormal findings of clinical breast examination, especially with younger patients, as only a cyst and not due to breast cancer. Statistics that support such a diagnosis.
However, this is not the end of the story. In the case of breast cancer is found before it can reach the final stage (ie, stage 0, stage I or stage II), five-year survival rate is usually above eighty percent. Five-year survival rate is a statistical measure used by cancer specialists to identify the fraction of patients who survive cancer for at least 5 years after diagnosis. Thus, 5-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 5 years after diagnosis.
If breast cancer is not detected until it reaches stage III (usually the larger mass in the breast cancer or cancer spread to lymph nodes), the 5-year survival drops to about 54%. With regard to stage IV (usually associated with 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 expected that one in eight women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime. Breast cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. More than 190,000 women are expected to be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer this year. And more than 49,000 women will die from breast cancer this year. Given the fact that women whose breast cancer is detected and treated while still in its early stages have a better chance than eighty percent survived cancer for more than 5 years after diagnosis, the question must be asked is what percentage of those forty thousand or more women who will die from the disease this year will probably continue to lead their lives if they have cancer there is a delay in the diagnosis of their cancer.
The problem is that the number of doctors to operate as if the good that they can tell if a woman's breast lump is cancerous or benign only by manual inspection or that a woman under 50 who have no family history of breast cancer so it is not possible to have breast cancer that does not need to order diagnostic tests to rule out cancer if she has a mass in her breast. Because most doctors will admit that finding a mass in her breast should be followed by diagnostic tests, such as, mammogram untrasound aspiration, or biopsy
When a physician diagnosis of breast lumps in women only as a benign cyst only by clinical breast examination, the doctor who put women in danger of not learning she had breast cancer to develop to the stage, progress may not be treated,. Not perform the proper diagnostic tests, such as 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 result in malpractice cases.
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