Question 403 · LEK · Breast cancer
When visiting the primary care unit, a 55-year-old woman told her general practitioner that she could feel some palpable lumpy abnormality, of ca. 3 cm in size, in her right breast. The appropriate management in this case should be:
- A. physical examination and ordering a screening mammography (patient aged over 50 years).
- B. physical examination and ordering tumour biopsy.
- C. issue the DiLO card (cancer diagnostics and treatment card) referring the patient to an outpatient cancer clinic.
- D. ordering breast ultrasound.
- E. ordering urgent breast MRI (magnetic resonance).
Hint
Under Polish rules, what does a GP issue when cancer is suspected so that the patient enters the fast-track oncology pathway?
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