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Assignment:

Lucy Williams, a 38-year-old mother of three young children, was employed a part-time medical receptionist in a busy rural practice. Generally, maintain a healthy lifestyle and used to do exercise regularly. Lucy's husband Peter owns his own business. Lucy was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer two years before and progressing well after extensive surgical, intervention, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. 10 months before, Lucy developed abdominal pain and intermittent nausea. A CT scan identified she had liver metastasis. She was reviewed by the radiation oncologist and started radiotherapy. Lucy spends most of her day in bed and experiences a number of symptoms including extreme fatigue, weakness, pain and poor appetite. The medical oncologist reviewed Lucy after the radiation treatment and said Lucy is progressing well. Lucy is not on any treatment now. Lucy told her doctor that she would not go through any more treatments such as chemo or radiotherapy in future. Lucy did not have any past medical history before the diagnosis of breast cancer.

Please consider the following points when you attend this assessment (%of the word count is provided as a guide for you to focus on certain aspects of this case study)

• Pathophysiology and risk factors to develop the given diagnosis.
• Formulate a person-centred health promotional activities to maintain the quality of life of someone living with this condition.
• Discuss the evidence based advantage of two medications that are used to manage this condition.