Women refusing treatment for breast cancer

Autor: Pokorná, Štěpánka
Přispěvatelé: Haškovcová, Helena, Skovajsová, Miroslava
Jazyk: čeština
Rok vydání: 2008
Popis: Breast cancer is most frequent malignant tumour at woman in the Czech republic, annually fall ill across 5000 women and this number has rising tendency over the last years. On the other hand mortality curve on breast cancer hasn't rising tendency. Reasons are two. First is the development method of treatment and their targeted indication so-called tailoring treatment. Second is diagnostics of tumour at initial stadium diseases, it is in phase without clinical symptons. Over those progress we still meet with women, which come to doctor, when she have advanced tumour or with women which refusing oncology treatment and turn to inefficiently methods of alternative medicine. Interviews performed among 85 oncologists and specialists of radiology - mamodiagnostician shown that 71 % of them meet with patient which refusing oncology treatment or its part. In opinion 90% of them, specialists should give greater attention to problems with refusing oncology treatment and questions of inefficiently methods of alternative medicine. In accordance with adressed doctors, improvement of health education of the community about treatment of malignat diseases and about inefficiently methods of alternative medicine, can improve negative picture of oncological treatment and inform the general public on risks connected with using...
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