Privacy Is an Important Issue for Women With Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is one of the most common form of cancer that threatens women and needs more attention ethically. Your valuable editorial titled “ABC of Medical Ethics and Professionalism in the Breast Clinic” was published in the recent issue.1 Because of my interest in medical ethics, and in line with your claim, I would like to contribute the results of my PhD dissertation in this area. The study was conducted in a public hospital in Iran based on critical ethnography and included 156 recorded clinical consultations, 920 hours of participant observation, and six focus groups consisting of patients and their families.2 The theme that was explored was violation of patients’ privacy