Santos, Sarah Jeanne R.

MC0835
Breast Cancer

Planning the Investigation

Lars Moller’s Model

1. What are the most important questions in this case?

a. List your knowledge of the issues(s) by aking;
(i) What do I know?
• Breast cancer is a disease that has a rapid growth of number nowadays. It is
not just only for female but also in male.

(ii)What do I presume?
• In this case, many are suffering from this kind of situation but somehow there
are possibilities that they can recover from breast cancer.

b. Base Building
(i)What are the basic information (and facts) must I find?
• History of breast cancer.
• How does the person can cope with breast cancer?
• Female and male that has a Breast cancer.
• Experts for this investigation.
• Causes of breast cancer.

(ii) How I conceive the problem?

• Even if there is a cure for Breast Cancer, it is not 100 percent that the patient
can cure at all. Nowadays there are many cancer patient died even though
they are go through chemotherapy.

(iii) Historical Background

Breast cancer (malignant breast neoplasm) is cancer originating
from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that
supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal
carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas.
Diagnosis and survival rate varies greatly depending on cancer type and staging.
Computerized models are available to predict survival. With best treatment and
dependent on staging, 10-year disease-free survival varies from 98% to 10%. Treatment
includes surgery, drugs (hormonal therapy and chemotherapy), and radiation.

Worldwide, breast cancer comprises 10.4% of all cancer incidences among

women, making it the most common type of non-skin cancer in women and the fifth most
common cause of cancer death. In 2004, breast cancer caused 519,000 deaths worldwide
(7% of cancer deaths; almost 1% of all deaths). Breast cancer is about 100 times more
common in women than in men, although males tend to have poorer outcomes due to
delays in diagnosis. In 2009 World Cancer Research Fund announced the results of a
further review that took into account a further 81 studies published subsequently. This did
not change the conclusions of the 2007 Report. In 2009, WCRF/ AICR published Policy
and Action for Cancer Prevention, a Policy Report that included a preventability study.
This estimated that 38% of breast cancer cases in the US are preventable through
reducing alcohol intake, increasing physical activity levels and maintaining a healthy
weight. It also estimated that 42% of breast cancer cases in the UK could be prevented in
this way, as well as 28% in Brazil and 20% in China.

(iv)What are the ethical considerations involved?

• We do not just show or interview the person involved but to share their
experience to the audience on how they fight their Breast Cancer and to inform or
to give knowledge about the rapid increase of cases of Breast Cancer.

c. State the topic as a series of important questions?

• Why Breast Cancer patients increase in number?
• What are the causes of Breast Cancer?
• What are the possibilities that they can recover from this Breast Cancer?
• How the Family support their loved ones who have Breast Cancer?
• Why men prone for having this Breast Cancer?
 d. Make a list of information that needs verification and confirmation and by whom.

Interviewer Info Ally Neutral Enemy

Primary

Breast cancer Are they

patient 1 accepting easily
they’re situation
Breast cancer for having Breast
patient 2 Cancer?

Back grounding They are stable

financially for
medical support?
And they are
ready emotionally
and have a moral
support to the
member of the
family who has a
breast cancer?
Experts

Psychologist How do they cope

psychologically
and emotionally?

Oncologist How do they

explain to the
patient who has a
breast cancer the
diagnosis and
meaning of the
disease stage?
Plastic Surgeon It is 100 percent
that if the breast
operated, it can
give assurance to
the patient that
they are cure at
all?

Sociologist How Breast

Cancer can affect
the life of the
person who has a
breast cancer and
also the Family?