The article, “Many Breast Cancer Patients Uninformed About Options,” by Madonna Behen, is about how doctors’ neglect to tell the patients about better treatment options. These doctors neglect to inform their patients about the stage of breast cancer they may have, leaving them in the dark. There was a study by Dr. Clara Lee, an associate professor of surgery, which studied 746 women by sending surveys to them after they had undergone stage one or two surgery. About 440 patients responded and out of all that number about 46% local recurrence is higher after breast conserving surgery than masectomy and about 56% knew that the survival rate is equivalent to both. This means that the knowledge that should be distributed isn’t being given as much as it should.
I believe that doctors should try more to inform their patients. Though the numbers of people who didn’t know weren’t as high, the information should still be given. It’s not fair that the doctors keep away this kind of information because these women could use that information to look for better ways to get treated. They wouldn’t have to undergo painful surgery and expensive surgery, because they would know how to handle it.
From this article, I understood that there is even a lack of awareness even from doctors. They don’t provide the patients with as much information as it’s needed. Not saying that every doctor is this way, but they should try harder for their patients. Every day a life can be saved and given a new path to walk.
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