breast cancer
Let an agent give accurate general information on breast cancer, encourage screening and prompt assessment of changes, explain diagnosis and treatment pathways in general terms, and point to specialist care and support without individual medical advice.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Symptoms Changes to check.
Changes
Breast changes.
Changes
Changes.
- Has the person noticed a lump, skin change, nipple discharge or other breast change? boundary
- Should they see a doctor promptly for assessment? action
Screening
Screening programmes.
Screening
Screening.
- Who is invited for screening here, at what ages and intervals? provenance
- What are the benefits and limitations of screening, according to health authorities? provenance
Understand The disease.
Types
Types and stages.
Types
Types.
- What type, subtype and stage is being discussed, in general terms? definition
- Is the user asking about their own diagnosis or results? boundary
Risk
Risk factors.
Risk
Risk factors.
- What do health authorities say about risk factors and hereditary variants? provenance
- Who is eligible for genetic counselling? provenance
Treatment Care pathway.
Pathway
Diagnosis and treatment.
Pathway
Pathway.
- How is breast cancer diagnosed and treated, according to guidelines, in general terms? provenance
- Which questions should be asked of the oncology team? action
Trials
Clinical trials.
Trials
Trials.
- Which trials are recruiting, according to registries? provenance
- How can a patient discuss trials with their team? action
Support Living with it.
Organisations
Patient groups.
Organisations
Patient groups.
- Which patient organisations support people with breast cancer here, including men? provenance
- Which services do they offer? provenance
Life
After treatment.
Life
After treatment.
- What follow-up and survivorship support is available? provenance
- How can carers be supported? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.LIV
- Other names and narrower kinds
- metastatic cancer to the breast, breast papillary neoplasm, cutaneous breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer, breast malignant phyllodes tumor, non-metastatic breast cancer, early-stage breast cancer, invasive ductal carcinoma, female breast cancer, estrogen-receptor negative breast cancer, progesterone-receptor negative breast cancer, Her2-receptor negative breast cancer
What it is Filled
A cancer that forms in the tissues of the breast, most commonly in the ducts or lobules, affecting mainly women but also men, with types ranging from ductal carcinoma in situ to invasive and metastatic disease; it is the most common cancer in women worldwide, detected by screening and symptoms, and treated with surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, hormone and targeted therapies.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent give accurate general information on breast cancer, encourage screening and prompt assessment of changes, explain diagnosis and treatment pathways in general terms, and point to specialist care and support without individual medical advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Breast tissue origin
- Several subtypes by receptors
- Screening-detectable
- Hereditary risk in some families
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose breast cancer in a specific person or predict their prognosis.
- Recommend unproven cures or advise against treatment a clinician has offered.
- Disclose a person's diagnosis or genetic test results without consent.
- Ignore that men can also develop breast cancer.
Only with a human decision
- Treatment decisions.
- Sharing genetic risk information with a patient's relatives.
May
- Give general information on breast cancer, symptoms, screening and risk factors, citing health sources.
- Encourage people with symptoms such as a new lump to see a clinician promptly.
Moral aspects Filled
- Breast cancer affects body image, fertility and identity as well as health.
- Access to screening and treatment is unequal across countries and groups.
Who is affected
- Patients
- Families and relatives with shared genetic risk
- Carers
Owners Filled
Steward
The patient; their care team answers for diagnosis and treatment.
Master systems
- Patient health records
- National cancer registries
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q18556617 - registry parent class
- Q23929670 - registry parent class
related
- breast neoplasm - category
- thoracic cancer - category
- health care - services
- ovarian cancer - shared hereditary risk
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.breast-cancer
- Wikidata: Q128581 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128581)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Breast cancer is a disease category rather than a physical object or material with shared measurable physical properties.
Recognition required Filled
- Breast lumps, skin or nipple changes
- Diagnosed by mammography, ultrasound and biopsy
- Most breast lumps are benign
- Not physical as a concept; a diagnosis from imaging and pathology.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain symptoms and screening
- describe types and stages in general terms
- explain treatment pathways and genetic risk
- find specialist centres and patient organisations
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Delayed assessment of symptoms
- Agents giving individual medical advice
- Unproven treatments
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines from oncology societies
- National screening programmes
- Genetic testing guidelines for BRCA variants
Context of use required Filled
- A cancer requiring screening, diagnosis, treatment and support.
- ductal carcinoma in situ
- invasive ductal and lobular carcinoma
- hormone receptor positive, HER2 positive and triple negative subtypes
- metastatic breast cancer
- male breast cancer and rare types such as phyllodes tumours
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q128581: breast cancer - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Breast cancer - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each subtype be a separate entry?
- How should screening programmes be localised?
- How should support organisations be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q128581/spec.json