Etiologia e frequência da dor relatada por mulheres com câncer de mama

• Autor(a) principal: Soares, Christina Guimarães Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3685
• topic: Neoplasia da mama; Dor; Mediação da dor; Breast neoplasm; Pain; Pain measurement; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women and the manifestation of pain is frequent and can occur at all stages of the disease, as well as being a consequence of various diagnostics and therapeutics approaches. Objectives: To describe if the pain is related or unrelated to breast cancer, identifying the occurrence of pain in the last 24 hours, check the intensity related or unrelated to breast cancer and report the main anatomical sites of pain. Methods: A descriptive study involving outpatient women diagnosed with breast cancer at any stage of the disease or treatment, from November 2011 to April 2012. The interviews were conducted with the oncology outpatients from Hospital João Alves Filho using a screening questionnaire elaborated by the researchers and the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI). Results: Ninety women aged 27-80 years old were interviewed, 59 (66%) did not relate the pain with breast cancer and 73 (81%) reported no pain before the illness. Only 34 women (38%) reported pain in the last 24 hours negatively affect the ability to walk, sleep and mood. The average pain on a scale from 0 to 10 was 4.8. The major anatomical sites of pain were the upper extremities (23%), lower limbs (21%) and spine (15%). Conclusion: Fifty nine (56%) of the women interviewed did not relate the pain with breast cancer, highlighting the upper extremities as major anatomical sites of pain. The pain was present, in the last 24 hours, in 38% of women, in mild intensity and interfering with quality of life.