Titlebook: Women with Cancer; Psychological Perspe Barbara L. Andersen Book 1986 Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1986 assessment.biopsy.cancer.carcinoma

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Adaptation to Chemotherapy Treatmentse equality), breast cancer remains an extremely potent killer of women, young and old. For many women, breast cancer represents a dreaded assault on the body, cutting short hopes for a fulfilling life as wife, mother, and grandmother. Unfortunately, biomedical science is still unable to provide cura

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Sexual Difficulties for Women Following Cancer Treatment patients, however, do have a good prognosis with a return to their previous lifestyle expected. One life area for which recovery may not bring resumption of normal functioning is sexuality. Depending on the site of disease and treatment received, upwards of 90% of women with cancer may experience s

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Behavior as a Biological Response Modifier: Psychological Variables and Cancer Prognosis malignant cell growth. The perspective assumed in this chapter is that the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses of the organism are biological response modifiers relevant to cancer risk and progression of disease. That is, we will consider psychological and behavioral factors as independe

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Behavior as a Biological Response Modifier: Psychological Variables and Cancer Prognosisnancy. Although the underlying mechanisms linking behavior and tumor response are more clear in the animal studies reviewed in the following, evidence from human studies is beginning to emerge pointing toward analogous mediating biological pathways.

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Epidemiologic Review of Cancer in Women amount for hospital care rises to $6.6 billion. Besides in-care costs, over $1.5 billion was estimated as spent for physician’s services. In making these estimates Hodgson and Rice did not include the categories of personal cost just described. Such costs can include transportation for persons receiving care, counseling services, and so forth.

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Common Malignancies Among Women: Sites and Treatment. The present chapter provides a brief overview of the most common malignancies in women (and the most likely to be studied by behavioral scientists)—breast, gynecologic, colon and rectum, lung, pancreatic, and melanoma—accounting, annually, for approximately 75% of all cancers in women.