This is just a rough draft of what I've sketched down about my Isearch topic:
I want to focus on symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment options, fertility issues and screening tools associated with women age 40 and below that are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Risk factors: obesity, alcohol consumption, family history, environmental/chemical, estrogen
Screening: breast self exam
Further tests if lump is felt: ultrasound/mammogram
What if there is no lump but symptoms? Drainage from nipple, nipple pain, redness, orange peel appearance
Diagnosis: tumor, grade, size, location, lymph node status, Her2Neu, estrogen receptor status
Various types of Breast Ca
Treatment: mastectomy, lumpectomy...chemo/radiation. ?radiation prior to surgery for some patients
?Do I need a mastectomy?
Physical and emotional issues surrounding being diagnosed at early age.
Survival rates
Do I need to have radiation if I have lumpectomy only? Do I need radiation if i've had mastectomy
Awareness: research stats if women under 40 living with breast Ca
Maine Breast and Cervical Foundation: free or low cost mammograms
Sure. Just keep remembering to do an isearch paper, not a research paper--everything has to loop back to you, your situation, your family.
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