The interdisciplinary of health technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of breast tumors: a case study

Introduction – The breast cancer is the main cause of death by cancer in the Portuguese female population. We intend to describe briefly the pathway of a patient with breast cancer, highlighting the connection between some of the health technology areas. Methodology – It was selected a clinical case of a patient with breast cancer and it was used a literature research to support or refute the results obtained with the mentioned clinical case. Results and discussion – In 1996, it was diagnosed to the patient a ductal carcinoma of the left breast and in 2011 it was diagnosed a breast metastases. In this case, as well as other breast tumours, it was done a multidisciplinary approach involving different areas of health technologies. For detection and diagnose of breast cancer it’s used the mammography and ultrasound. For cases of re-staging and treatment monitoring it should be used positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the breast. Regarding the therapy approach, in this type of tumours, it is used surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy