QUANTITATIVE STUDY

Quantitative study

Quantitative study

Introduction

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Canadian women's. Survival rates are not uniform and vary by geographic location. In Canada, it estimated in 2003 that more than 21000 women's were diagnosed as affected by this cancer. Despite the lower incidence rates within low-and middle-income countries corresponding to their high-income counterparts, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that nearly 70 percent of all breast cancer deaths occurs in low-and middle-income countries. Incidence rates have been rising steadily around the globe in recent decades, increasing the cancer burden worldwide. The geographic distribution of breast cancer incidence and mortality illustrates important patterns related to wealth, culture and health infrastructures among developed and developing countries. The differences in breast cancer incidence between developed and developing countries can be explained in part by exposure to lifestyle related risk factors, such as postmenopausal obesity from the Western diet coupled with limited exercise, alcohol consumption, and reproductive factors that prolong women's exposure to naturally occurring estrogens.

These reproductive factors contribute to the early onset of menstruation, delayed menopause, delayed age at first childbirth, and shorter breastfeeding schedules. As developing countries adopt these more Western behaviors, the risk of developing breast cancer may increase. In addition to these risk factors age, inherited genetic mutations, use of hormone replacement therapy, and a previous history of cancer of the endometrial, ovary, or colon may increase a woman's overall risk for developing breast cancer. Overall in this research we would conduct a quantitative research and would try to find out the relation between diet and breast cancer patients, as it always considered a controversial issue as most of the people thinks that dietary fat only increases the weight, but many others think that it also increases the risk factor for breast cancer. So in this research our main focus would be on does diet help in controlling breast cancer?

Ethical Consideration

The proposed study does not contain any ethical issue. The research primarily was designed on primary methodological trends collecting the required data via structured questionnaire and on the basis of the questionnaire. In this relation, the researcher first inform the respondents that their questionnaire would be recorded only for the purpose of analyzing the data Moreover, the respondents were also assured that their personal information would be kept confidential. Only collected responses from their side would be made part of research study, which would be, assume as the findings of research that would be analysed.

Research design and approach

Quantitative research uses analytical methods to investigate phenomena and address issues and problems. As mentioned in the problem statement, this research requires investigation of the relation between diet and breast cancer Quantitative technique usually applied when researcher intend to measure the collected data statistically (Bakker, 1997). Descriptive and inferential statistics will be used to analyze results of the questionnaire. This research will comply with all ethical research requirements The respondents will be assured that ethical considerations, confidentiality and non-disclosure will be adhered to at all ...