Reference no: EM133562898

Question: Rachel Dikos is a 57yr old female with a 35yr two pack a day habit until she quit 5 years ago. Her has a family history of lung cancer, as her father passed away from the disease in his late 60's. Rachel has a persistent cough for the past 6 months, along with occasional chest pain and shortness of breath. She visited her primary care physician after her symptoms worsened. After diagnostic testing and thorough assessment and evaluation. Rachel was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Give an overview of the diagnosis including risk factors and how they cause or contribute to adaptation or pathogenesis.
Give an in-depth discussion of the pathophysiology of your diagnosis as it occurs over time; include signs, symptoms, diagnostic studies and the underlying pathophysiologic processcausing these signs and symptoms. Support this pathophysiology with high level Evidence.
Summarize treatments and outcomes in terms of pathophysiologic
alterations.
Once you have had an in-depth discussion of your diagnosis overall, be sure to connect your case discussion back to the patient you have presented. Example, if your patient has HTN and DM, be sure to include a discussion of the symptoms that your patient is exhibiting and discuss treatments specifically aimed for your patient.
Support your case discussion with current (in the past 5 years) high level evidence. Patient information portals, disease association websites and other resources such as Up-to-date, Epocrates, Medscape, Mayo Clinic are not considered high levels of evidence and should be avoided for your presentations. While use of the course textbooks is permitted, a minimum of 3 high level citations outside of the course texts is required. If you are unclear about what is considered high level evidence, please review content from your Evidence Based Nursing Practice Course