Breast Cancer Research & Ethics

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...consideration of ethics and there are numerous institutional and legal safeguards that are intended to protect the interests of human subjects and the public. Nevertheless, ethical issues arise. These issues can concern the personal feelings of practitioners, but most often, they concern implications from medical advancements that ethical guidelines have yet to consider. The following examination of ethical conflicts focuses specifically problematic areas that have arisen in breast cancer research. A literature review is offered and then discussion addresses such issues as what this information reveals about various ethical conflict in research, such as patient consent, benefits to patients and society, therapeutic research, etc.
Literature review
In her book, The Mammography Controversy, author Madelon L. Finkel offers the case study of a 21-year-old single woman who developed a malignant breast lesion. Her surgeon felt that breast-conserving surgery with radiation constituted an inferior treatment and, therefore, scheduled her for a radical mastectomy without discussing alternative courses of action with the patient (Gotzsche, 2005). However, the surgeon became anxious over...

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