Background The shared impact of breast cancer for women and their male partners is
emerging as an important consideration during the experience of a breast cancer diagnosis …

Background: Expressive writing has been shown to improve quality of life, fatigue, and
posttraumatic stress among breast cancer patients across cultures. Understanding how and …

Purpose In what state of health do women with breast cancer consider themselves to be?
Health professionals classify them as cancer victims but few studies have examined …

This article offers a theoretical framework for understanding the biographical work of cancer
survivorship using two concepts from social anthropology: liminality and ritual. The …

Purpose/Objectives: To explore the processes through which patients construct their
meanings of acute leukemia (AL). Research Approach: An exploratory design was …

目的探讨青年女性乳腺癌患者接受乳腺癌根治手术后的真实体验. 方法应用质性研究中的现象学
研究法对12 名乳腺癌根治术后的青年女性患者进行半结构式访谈, 并按照Colaizzi 7 …

Storytelling is an essential part of life. Much of what humankind has known has been
through storytelling. This performance thesis focuses on the narratives of a cancer survivor …

Abstract Résumé: Cette étude a pour but de proposer une modélisation théorique du
processus de transition des perceptions de l'état de santé de femmes diagnostiquées d'un …

Being diagnosed with breast cancer is a significant change in the health status of a person
causing an internal process, a transition between health perceptions and disease reflects a …

Background: Breast cancer is one of the most common female malignancies worldwide and
the cause of cancer death among women in developed and economically developing …