Breast Cancer.
Title:
Breast Cancer.
Author:
Clark, Andrew.
ISBN:
9781482267563
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (150 pages)
Series:
Experience of Illness
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' preface -- What is breast cancer and how is it treated? A surgeon's experience of breast cancer -- Lay attitudes, beliefs, screening, and self-examination -- Finding a breast lump and hearing the diagnosis -- Psychosocial outcome of breast cancer treatment -- Psychological reactions to recurrence and advanced disease -- Psychological interventions -- Conclusion and new directions -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
For many women breast cancer is one of the most distressing of all diseases. Breast Cancer examines the effects of the disease through all stages of diagnosis and treatment. Making extensive use of verbatim accounts by women of their experiences, it intersperses these with relevant findings and theories from recent scientific research. The book's emphasis on the psychosocial impact of the disease and its treatment will help all those who care for breast cancer patients to understand the distress involved and the means of alleviating it.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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