HEALTH ACTIONS ON EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER

Abstract

To carry out a bibliographic survey about the health actions on the early detection of breast cancer. This is an integrative literature review. It was based on data from Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS) and Nursing Database (BDENF), via Virtual Health Library (VHL), which had as its guiding question: "What does the literature address about the health actions on the early detection of breast cancer?". The following descriptors were used: "Health care", "Early detection of cancer", "Breast cancer" and "Public health", as inclusion criteria were considered: full text, Portuguese, Spanish and English language, which portrayed the theme under study, published in the years 2012 to 2022, and as exclusion criteria: duplicate texts, incomplete and that did not focus on the exposed theme. The descriptors were crossed through the Boolean operator "AND" for simultaneous search of the subjects. However, one cannot lose sight of the term early detection, which involves the first instance identification of abnormalities in the breast. Thus, early detection programs are essential for reducing breast-related diseases. In view of the above, we conclude that health actions for early detection of breast cancer are very important to reduce the high mortality rates from the disease.