Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:39:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GreyceGG.pdf: 929158 bytes, checksum: 8ee5f64c315cee46f9d05b47b481ec4b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-27 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Breast cancer has been considered a grave global public health problem due to its increase in incidence, in women s mortality and in the amount of financial resources spent on the therapeutic interventions used in the treatment of this neoplasia. However, this scenario presents some variations. In developing countries, the incidence of breast cancer is increasing but, on the other hand, the mortality is declining among patients because of public health actions toward early diagnostic that also result in cure of patients and decreasing levels of physical and psychosocial stress. In Brazil, we face of both the increasing number of breast cancer incidence and number of mortalities. Almost always the reason for that is a delayed detection that will provide a late diagnostic. The early detection of breast cancer has been studied in several researches. Some of them are concerned with women s experiences. Despite that, there is a lack of researches on dynamic comprehension of early attention to breast cancer from the health professionals points of view. The present research was carried out at the Unidade Mista de Felipe Camar?o (UMFC) and it was conducted with 11 professionals who work in the Family Health Program (PSF). The aim was to understand how early diagnostic and attention to breast cancer is being planned, discussed and accomplished by health professionals in their day-to-day actions. Semi-structure interviews were held individually with each professional, in a way that they could feel free to express their ideas about several issues. All the information from these interviews was analyzed and discussed using an Institutional Ethnographic approach. It was observed that the actions of health professionals working with early detection of breast cancer does not take place in a vacuum; they occur within institutional, relational and social ways. This interdependence influences their actions and points of view on the theme / O c?ncer de mama ? considerado um grave problema de sa?de p?blica mundial em decorr?ncia do aumento da sua incid?ncia, da mortalidade de mulheres e das grandes somas dispensadas para equacionar as interven??es terap?uticas empregadas a esta neoplasia. Entretanto, este panorama apresenta varia??es. Em pa?ses desenvolvidos h? o aumento da sua incid?ncia, entretanto h? a redu??o da sua mortalidade, sobretudo, pelo direcionamento das a??es de sa?de ? sua aten??o precoce, implicando na cura da grande maioria dos casos e na diminui??o dos impactos f?sicos e psicossociais. No Brasil, nos deparamos com a eleva??o tanto de sua incid?ncia quanto de sua mortalidade, em virtude, muitas vezes, do retardamento na sua detec??o o que ocasionar? o seu diagn?stico tardio. V?rios estudos t?m sido realizados abordando a tem?tica supracitada e muitos destes est?o direcionados ?s experi?ncias das mulheres. Contudo, percebeu-se a car?ncia de pesquisas relacionadas ? compreens?o da din?mica da aten??o precoce do c?ncer de mama a partir do olhar dos profissionais de sa?de. A presente pesquisa foi realizada na Unidade Mista de Felipe Camar?o (UMFC) com 11 profissionais das equipes do Programa de Sa?de da Fam?lia (PSF). Objetivou-se compreender como a tem?tica da aten??o precoce estava sendo articulada, discutida e realizada nas a??es cotidianas dos profissionais dessa institui??o. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas e a an?lise e discuss?o das informa??es obtidas foi empreendida sob a perspectiva da abordagem da Etnografia Institucional. Observou-se que as a??es dos profissionais voltadas ? aten??o precoce do c?ncer de mama n?o acontecem em um vazio, mas s?o constru?das social, institucional e relacionalmente e essa interdepend?ncia acaba influenciando suas a??es e posicionamentos em rela??o ? tem?tica desta investiga??o