Nursing Program

CLIENT INFORMATION FORM

Student's Name Date of Care:
Client Initials Room Number Sex: Age : Admission Date: Admitting Diagnosis: Rt. Lobe infiltrate, Breast & Bone Cancer
Secondary Diagnosis if any): Respiratory Distress
Surgery Type/Date (if any): Lumpectomy on Rt. Foot at 2002
Working Medical Diagnosis/Etiology (describe definition, pathophysiology, and sign/symptoms)

Metastatic Breast Cancer

Metastatic breast cancer is the term used to describe cancer that has spread from the original site in the breast to other organs or tissues in the body. Cancer cells can break away from the original cancer in the breast and the cancer cells that break away can spread to other parts of the body via blood vessels or lymphatic vessels. The original site where the cancer cells came from is called the primary cancer. When cancer cell travels from the breast around the body they can lodge themselves in various body organs or tissues. These cells can begin to form breast cancer in new place and this new cancer is called secondary or a metastasis. Breast cancer most commonly spreads to one or more sites: bone, liver, brain and lungs. The sign or symptoms that may experience will depend on where the cancer is in the body and the extent of the cancer. If its spread to the:
Bone- pain is fairly constant, aching pain. It may increase with movement or activity.
Lungs/pleura- will experience shortness of breath, dry cough, fatigue, chest pain or feeling of heaviness in the chest.
Liver- it includes weight loss, lack of appetite, fatigue, and discomfort at the right side of the abdomen, nausea, jaundiced and swelling of the abdomen.
Brain- will experience headache, nausea and vomiting, weakness in arm or leg,