Publicación:

Afrontamiento y las consecuencias psicológicas en personas con cáncer de mama

Resumen

Bearing in mind that a person diagnosed with breast cancer associates this disease with death, generating an impact at the psychic level, the initiative to investigate thoroughly the processes that people diagnosed with breast cancer undergo at a psychological level. The present research is a qualitative case study of descriptive type, in which 6 women diagnosed with breast cancer were interviewed, analyzing data that allows us to know the ages of onset of the first symptom, place of residence, educational level, marital status and family history with oncological disease, all with the aim of knowing the profiles of these people who have gone through and those who are still going through an oncological process. The instruments used were Informed Consent and Semi-structured Interview.