Breast cancer surgery
Activity
e-Learning Module
e-Learning Module
In this module, you will learn about the presentation, diagnosis, and management of breast cancer.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Surgery Rotation
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Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Develop a differential diagnosis for a 20-year-old patient with breast mass and a 45- year-old patient with breast mass. Consider benign vs. malignant, abscess.
- Describe the diagnostic work-up and sequence: Discuss importance of the patient's history: estimated duration of illness, nipple discharge, breast cancer risk factor assessment. Discuss physical findings to look for.
- Discuss the diagnosis and management of the patient with an abnormal mammogram (consider microcalcifications).
- Discuss the rationale for management with specific emphasis on: Staging of breast CA; The role of incision and drainage and antibiotics in breast abscess treatment; Current recommendations for screening mammography.
- Discuss the importance of such breast imaging studies as ultrasound and mammography.
Assessments
e-Learning Module Completion
Tags
Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Surgery Rotation
Discipline
Surgery
MCC Presentations
Breast Discharge
Breast Masses and Enlargement
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Breast Neoplasms [C04.588.180]
