Cancer Screening among Aboriginal Indigenous People in Australia

CANCER SCREENING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART A...........................................................................................................................................1
Identification of community in Australia and their key characteristics along with rationale for
selecting the same.......................................................................................................................1
PART B............................................................................................................................................3
The ways in which nurses work in partnership manner with the Aboriginal Indigenous people
and community............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Cancer screening is a kind of testing for cancer before any person has any symptoms.
Screening cancer that enables a patient to find cancer at primary stage before even appearance of
symptoms. When any tissues are found early it might be easier to treat or cure the disease with
limited efforts (Butler and et.al., 2020). By the time symptoms appear, the cancer may have
grown and spread. This report is based upon the concept of cancer screening among the
community which has been chosen the Aboriginals people of Australia through which it will be
identified that what are the characteristics of choosing this community along with the reason
behind the same. Apart from this, the study will also highlight the ways in which the nurses can
work in collaborative manner with the Aboriginals using strength based approach.
PART A
Identification of community in Australia and their key characteristics along with rationale for
selecting the same
Within the Australia, there are national population based screening programs for
different kind of cancers such as cervical cancer, breast cancer and bowel cancer. Indigenous
Australians participate into the Breast screen Australia and the National Bowel Cancer screening
programme at a lower rate rather than the non indigenous Australians. Indigenous people within
the Australian community have higher incidence rates for various kind of cancer including those
which can be detected early or prevented with the help of organized screening programs.
Enhanced participation and retention in cancer screening is highly crucial to improve population
health final results amongst indigenous people (Tervonen and et.al., 2019). The Aboriginal
community has been chosen for this specific screening illustrates that Australian indigenous
women have highly experienced the burden of cervical cancer than other women. It is all
because of the reason that the National Cervical screening programme is failing in order to meet
the requirements of Indigenous people. However, one third of the Australian indigenous women
had participated into the cancer screening. The reason behind it includes that some women into
such population continue and commence to screen remain unheard but could also provide
insights to support other women who currently do not participate.
Apart from this, from detailed evaluation it had been evaluated that indigenous women in
Australia are facing additional structure barriers to cervical screening which demonstrates that
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