Prevenção do câncer de mama em mulheres: revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

The preventive work related to breast cancer has been challenging for decades various specialties of health, civil society, self-help groups, municipal, state, federal, and other professionals related to the area. The study analyzes scientific articles on the prevention of breast cancer in women in relation to the prerogatives health and health promotion. It is a literature review in which papers were used Virtual Library Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), from January 2005 to July 2011. For data collection we used the keywords "cancer prevention", "breast cancer", "prevention of cancer breast cancer, " prevention and care to cancer”, " breast cancer "and" neoplasm of cancer". The authors Sharma (2005) and Birth (2009), served as the theoretical basis which indicate the importance of health education and clarification of information on preventive habits and breast cancer. The research emphasis is on preventive methods in relation to breast cancer, which appear at the insistence of information to users and their families, the knowledge about your body, in acquisition of healthy lifestyles and continuing education of health professionals. Seen as a public health problem, breast cancer involves self-breast examination, mammography and clinical examination which are among the principal means of early diagnosis, which favors the cure rate among patients.