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Meeting Psychosocial Needs of Women with Breast Cancer

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More than 250,000 women in the United States hear the diagnosis of breast cancer every year. Most women will be cured by sur- gery, which no longer means a mastectomy in many cases. Additional treatment, designed to prevent a recurrence in the breast or spread of the cancer to other areas of the body, may be recommended at the time of diagnosis. This may include radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and hor- monal therapy. More than 25 percent of women with breast cancer will die because the disease has spread beyond the breast and lymph nodes. Whereas breast cancer is curable when it is confined to the breast and regional lymph nodes, metastatic breast cancer is not curable. Women with breast cancer suffer psychologically not only from the diagnosis and initial therapy (with the resultant side effects) but also from the fear of recurrence and of dying of the disease. This report on meeting the psychosocial needs of women with breast cancer was prepared by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Re- search Council National Cancer Policy Board (the Board) and is based in part on a comprehensive workshop held at the IOM, October 28 and 29, 2002 (see Appendix A). The report is one of a three-part series from the Board on cancer survivorship, and it follows and builds on the Board’s 1999 report, Ensuring Quality Cancer Care, in which the Board concluded that psychosocial support services were an essential component of quality cancer care. The present report is intended to speak to stakeholders and policy makers in cancer care, to women with or concerned about breast cancer, and the interested general public.

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: ., 2004

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1-289

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English

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0-309-52953-0

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Meeting Psychosocial Needs of Women with Breast Ca

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