The Basic Knowledge About Breast Cancer

The Basic Knowledge About Breast Cancer.
Many women with bust cancer inadequacy basic knowledge about their disease, such as their cancer stage and other characteristics, according to a new study. The fall short of of knowledge was even more pronounced among minority women, the study authors found. This discovery is worrisome because knowing about a health condition can help people understand why remedying is important to follow, experts say erection. "We certainly were surprised at the number of women who knew very no about their disease," said Dr Rachel Freedman, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a medical oncologist specializing in chest cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Although the scan didn't specifically look at the reasons behind the lack of knowledge, Freedman suspects that women may be overwhelmed when they're initially diagnosed. In uniting individual doctors vary in how much dope they give and how well they explain the cancer characteristics. The study is published online Jan 26, 2015 in Cancer as explained here. Kimlin Tam Ashing, a professor at the Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, California, reviewed the study's findings, and said that responsive appointments may also be to denounce for the education gap.

In the survey, Freedman and her team asked 500 women four questions about their cancer including questions about tumor stage, grade, and hormone receptor status. Overall, 32 percent to 82 percent of women reported that they knew the answers to these questions. But only 20 percent to 58 percent were in point of fact correct, depending on the characteristics, the investigators found. Just 10 percent of drained women and 6 percent of vile and Hispanic women knew all of their cancer characteristics correctly, according to the study.

Cancer "stage" describes the compass of the cancer, whether it is invasive or not and if lymph nodes are confusing (stages 0 through IV). Two-thirds of milky women and about half of frowning and Hispanic women were able to correctly identify their cancer's stage, the researchers found. Cancer "grade" describes how the cancer cells appearance under the microscope and can help predict its aggressiveness. Just 24 percent of hoary women, 15 percent of black women and 19 percent of Hispanic women knew what their cancer year was, according to the study.