PSYC 3480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Breast Self-Examination, Lung Cancer, Mammography
5 Oct 2012
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Women see doctor more than men; receive more therapy. Surgical procedures performed more on women: things can be detected more because women visit the doctors more, women: plastic surgery, c-section (gender appropriate things being done) Women might not be sicker than men: respond to cues differently. Physical and mental health are not mutually exclusive. Only male used to die from heart disease, not women can die from it too. Liver cancer = male disease (because of alcohol) women die from it too. Lung cancer = male disease women do too. Women are equally likely to have cardiac problems. Women 40% less likely diagnosed as high risk. There"s a gene that 80% of those who has it will have breast cancer. Causes: hrt, high-fat diets, smoking, alcohol consumption. Detection: have mammography annually cancer screening/breast examination, mammography = take picture of breast and squish it as small as possible.
