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Breast cancer: psychosocial consequences for the patient
1Department of Surgical Nursing, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
Seminars in Oncology Nursing
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
Women with breast cancer experience various psychosocial problems throughout the continuum of the disease. The psychosocial impact and adjustment of women with breast cancer during the phases of pretreatment, primary treatment, adjuvant therapy, recurrence, and advanced disease have numerous implications for nursing practice and research.