A major challenge of your assignment will be translating from a journal article to a discrete cause or prevantative for cancer. Why?
Journal articles have a very narrrow focus
For example, an article with the title, "Breast cancer genetic counseling after diagnosis but before treatment: A pilot study on treatment consequences and psychological impact" is examining a specific and small piece of cancer research. It's not reporting on stomach, lung or any other type of cancer. It's not discussing any specific treatement. It's not talking about screening to catch cases earlier. It's not going over other types of counseling (e.g. psychological).
The article is only concerned with breat cancer and only with the treatment consequences of genetic counseling during a narrow and specific time frame. Further, this article is only examining women with a BRCA1/2 gene mutation, and only those who received rapid genetic counseling (no other types) during 2004 - 2008 and only at The Netherlands Cancer Institute. This is exactly 10 women.
What should I look for in an article?
Some articles wil have a wider topic, but still not as wide as a book. For example: Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment would be a (very large) book. Journal articles just won't cover everything about a broad topic. But book authors will use many different journal articles to form the evidence for the book. That's just what you are doing! Article that will be more general may include:
Meta-analysis (a study of a bunch of other studies about a topic) Example: Effects of Yoga on Psychologic Function and Quality of Life in Women with Breast Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Primary care provider practice review (some of the medical journals have features that go over the most up-to-date research on causes and treatment for a disease for folks on the front line of care that may not have time to "keep up" on all the research) Example: Overview of Breast Cancer Treatment and Reconstruction for Primary Care Providers
Trend or theme analysis (this kind of study usually looks at a theme over serveral years in various ascpets of diagnosis and treatment) Example: Racial Differences in Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis in the Mammography Era
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