0:00:12shock and fear in turkeys life the moment she was diagnosed with breast cancer
0:00:17soon after she met with a surgeon who suggested treatment plan
0:00:21love back to me the chemotherapy than six weeks of daily radiation
0:00:26which you can set
0:00:28instead of k one and a mastectomy she's then
0:00:31i want the cancer gone taken all take into if needed
0:00:37in early stages of invasive breast cancer one back to be the preferred method of
0:00:41treatment for most women
0:00:43it is less surgically and based
0:00:45and there was no significant difference in overall survival between women one trickle mastectomy
0:00:51persons women wonder goal of actually
0:00:53provided these women also have radiation therapy
0:00:57so it was a rational by requesting the removal of her entire breast
0:01:02yes or no she's not a low
0:01:05although spectrum is preferred medically
0:01:07mastectomy is being performed at high rates in canada
0:01:10overall there is a trend towards more surgically aggressive treatment than medically necessary in breast
0:01:16cancer
0:01:18i study how decision making because i see a gap between what is expected
0:01:22and what actually occurs
0:01:25decision making is the cognitive process that is fundamental to all aspects of health care
0:01:30and little is known about it
0:01:32despite this
0:01:34many decision making tools exist for patients which assume that patients make decisions so called
0:01:40rationally
0:01:41however
0:01:42in the real world when faced with life threatening illness patients do not necessarily make
0:01:47decisions as expected
0:01:50twenty and this
0:01:51i will be interviewing women of various ages with breast cancer
0:01:55i will be exploring their preferences and their motivations across the range of decisions
0:02:01i will
0:02:02compare and contrast those experiences to explain decision making for younger middle age and older
0:02:08women in this population because women that are younger and older have different social and
0:02:13emotional needs in cancer
0:02:15in this way
0:02:17the patient perspective that is the perspective of your grandmother's and your mother's your sisters
0:02:23you're i don't daughters
0:02:24their respective will drive the development
0:02:27of tools and resources for cancer decision making
0:02:30and they will inform best practises for clinicians where counselling patients early in the cancer
0:02:36journey
0:02:37and what about eight
0:02:40she's a real women it's not real name a real woman i contribute
0:02:43who is a mother to for young children who lives far from radiation facility
0:02:49this work may encourage her to process for decision making in a way
0:02:53that recognises for social and emotional needs
0:02:56well still eliciting
0:02:57optimal health outcomes
0:02:59thank you