Breast cancer
- Created by: chloerid
- Created on: 14-02-16 10:00
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- Impacts
- Financial
- Missing work to attend appointments for example visiting breast cancer specialist nurse or going for chemotherapy treatment.
- Having to stop work or lose job due to tiredness and weakness from chemotherapy treatment.
- Receive sick pay from work because too weak from chemo. to work.
- Physical
- Loss of hair due to chemotherapy
- Nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy
- Tiredness and weakness caused by chemotherapy
- Chemotherapy can reduce fertility as it it may damage eggs.
- Intellectual
- Increased knowledge of breast cancer.
- Poor concentration due to chemotherapy
- Emotional
- Embarrassment due to loss of hair or loss of breast from mastectomy.
- Fear and anxiety about what is going to happen to them and their loved ones, perhaps especially mothers.
- Guilt about the strain it is putting on the family. Or if genetic them feel guilty about passing it on (family or woman to children)
- Anger that it has happened to them.
- Detached feelings.
- Social
- Difficulty with sex and intimacy especially after a mastectomy.
- Difficulty talking to friends and family about it because they don't have a shared experience of it.
- Not taking part in social events or group activities perhaps because of feeling self conscious because of hair loss, mastectomy or feeling weak and tired due to chemo.
- Financial
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