Informative Speech Outline On Breast Cancer

Topic: Breast Cancer

General Purpose: To inform

Specific Purpose: To inform the viewer about what breast cancer is and how someone gets this disease.

Central Ideas (thesis): Understanding what breast cancer is and how someone gets this disease as well as the symptoms, diagnosis, stages and the treatment for this disease.

INTRODUCTION

Attention getter: Every 13 minutes one women will die in the U.S. from breast cancer which makes it the second top cause of death in women. Every 19 seconds there will be someone that will be diagnosed with this disease. Did you know there is expected to be 330,080 new cases of breast cancer here in the U.S. in 2018? There is also around 40,920 women in 2018 as well that is expected to die in the United States alone. (Komen, 2018)

Relevance to audience: According to the National Cancer Institute there were

Stage 2 there is no tumor that can be found but cancer larger than 2 centimeters can be. It can be found in the axillary lymph nodes and has two categories 2A and 2B.

d. Stage 3 there will be no tumor found in the breast or it could be any size. The breast cancer is invasive, and the cancer is found in about 4 to 9 axillary lymph nodes. In this stage there are three different categories which are 3A, 3B, and 3C.

e. Stage 4 is described to be the most invasive breast cancer. In this stage the cancer has spread beyond the breast invading the lymph nodes along with the other organs in the body. (Breast Cancer organization , 2018)

II. There is a bunch of different treatment options for breast cancer, but it depends on what stage the person is in at the time, their age, health, medical issues, personal preferences, and the specific type of breast cancer they have. The treatments are put into two categories which are.

A. Local treatments these type of treatments will treat the tumor without causing any harm to the rest of the body and the local type of therapies are.

1. Radiation therapy

2. Surgery (American Cancer Society,