Nursing Practice Enquiry
Question:
Topic
The impact of mastectomy on unmarried Nulliparous woman age 25-45 years in the UK with breast cancer.
Aim: to explore the effects mastectomy of unmarried Nulliparous woman age 25-45 years in the UK with breast cancer.
Research Question: what is the impact of mastectomy on unmarried Nulliparous woman age 25-45 years in the UK with breast cancer.
Objectives
To systematically review the impact of selected primary research articles regarding the impact of mastectomy on unmarried nulliparous women age 25-45 in the UK with breast cancer.
To review and reflect on theories and nursing management of mastectomy on nulliparous women with breast cancer pre and post surgery
To analyse and reflect on the government health policies initiatives in the management of mastectomy on women with breast cancer and to discuss the results, conclusion and recommendation for future, research in regards to mastectomy.
Answer:
Introduction
Breats cancer in the United Kingdom continues to be the most lethal form of malignancy in the present times. Every year around 55,000 individuals is diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK. This implies that around 150 individuals are diagnosed with malignancy every day. 1 in every eight women is found to develop breast cancer in their lifetime (breastcancercare.org.uk 2015). Breast cancer surgery is often required for the complete removal of the entire breast in which the malignancy has been detected. Mastectomy is the complete removal of the breast for prevention of further spread of cancer (McGale et al. 2014). Discussions about patient management after mastectomy have been put up in a large pool of literature who have attempted to throw light upon the different aspects, positive and negative, of the impact of mastectomy on women.
Stewart and Wild (2014) have highlighted that a young, nulliparous women are not to be discouraged to have children after undergoing a mastectomy. Sterilisation might be considered as the appropriate choice for not conceiving in the future and must be given more priority as compared to oral contraception. As per the authors, the major risk factors for breast cancer include the nulliparous state. However, mastectomy is done to a nulliparous woman also has a negative impact on the women. At present, mastectomy is the essential operation for treatment of breast cancer, but women are not considering it due to an issue that the it is highly disfiguring. Though mastectomy has comparatively less physical complications, the psychological impact on the nulliparous women are deep. These feelings include lack of attractiveness and dissatisfaction regarding body (Lagoa et al. 2015).
The issue relevant to the nursing management of nulliparous women with breast cancer pre and post surgery is essential to the understanding of the effects of mastectomy in the concerned population. The studies related to this matter although scanty, yet there are evidence and empirical findings that have rendered vital insight into the exploratory topic for the sake of better understanding and deeper probe in this regard. The study findings have crucial implications for defining definite strategies and interventions to tackle the issue in the vulnerable individuals thereby aiding in mitigating the condition and preventing deteriorating effects of the disease. In UK there lies a scarcity of studies that have addressed the topic of the impact of mastectomy on an unmarried Nulliparous woman.
