CASE STUDY


Incidental finding of primary and metastatic lung cancers during radiographer-led virtual simulation for breast cancer: A case study report.


IDENTIFYING ABNORMALITIES DURING CT PLANNING FOR BREAST RADIOTHERAPY


JOSIE CAMERON B 26


reast cancer accounts for a third of all cancer cases in women in the UK1


be a 27% increase in the incidence in Scotland by 2027 compared with known cases in 2008-20122 In 2013-2014 there were 1450 cases of breast


cancer identified through the Scottish Breast Screening Programme. Of these, over 80% were invasive, half of


and it is predicted that there will .


which were less than 15mm in size and unlikely to be detected by a physical examination alone3


. The patients


undergo a process of triple assessment which involves clinical examination, mammography/ultrasound and cytology to detect the presence of invasive cancers and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Once a cancer diagnosis has been made, they then proceed to staging investigations


JUNE 2017


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