shock and fear in turkeys life the moment she was diagnosed with breast cancer
soon after she met with a surgeon who suggested treatment plan
love back to me the chemotherapy than six weeks of daily radiation
which you can set
instead of k one and a mastectomy she's then
i want the cancer gone taken all take into if needed
in early stages of invasive breast cancer one back to be the preferred method of
treatment for most women
it is less surgically and based
and there was no significant difference in overall survival between women one trickle mastectomy
persons women wonder goal of actually
provided these women also have radiation therapy
so it was a rational by requesting the removal of her entire breast
yes or no she's not a low
although spectrum is preferred medically
mastectomy is being performed at high rates in canada
overall there is a trend towards more surgically aggressive treatment than medically necessary in breast
cancer
i study how decision making because i see a gap between what is expected
and what actually occurs
decision making is the cognitive process that is fundamental to all aspects of health care
and little is known about it
despite this
many decision making tools exist for patients which assume that patients make decisions so called
rationally
however
in the real world when faced with life threatening illness patients do not necessarily make
decisions as expected
twenty and this
i will be interviewing women of various ages with breast cancer
i will be exploring their preferences and their motivations across the range of decisions
i will
compare and contrast those experiences to explain decision making for younger middle age and older
women in this population because women that are younger and older have different social and
emotional needs in cancer
in this way
the patient perspective that is the perspective of your grandmother's and your mother's your sisters
you're i don't daughters
their respective will drive the development
of tools and resources for cancer decision making
and they will inform best practises for clinicians where counselling patients early in the cancer
journey
and what about eight
she's a real women it's not real name a real woman i contribute
who is a mother to for young children who lives far from radiation facility
this work may encourage her to process for decision making in a way
that recognises for social and emotional needs
well still eliciting
optimal health outcomes
thank you