Breast cancer
"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 an...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Tavistock/Routledge
1991.
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Experience of illness.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798038606719 |
Table of 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
