Optimistic personality and psychosocial well-being during treatment predict psychosocial well-being among long-term survivors of breast cancer

Article Abstract:

The several specific psychological variables as potential influences on psychological well-being among long-term survivors of breast cancer are examined. The study of well-being among cancer survivors is not entirely a matter of comparing survivors with people who never had cancer, and secondly, personality plays important role in well-being among patient groups.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Care and treatment, Cancer survivors

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Cognitive-behavioral stress management intervention decreases the prevalence of depression and enhances benefit finding among women under treatment for early-stage breast cancer

Article Abstract:

This article examines the beneficial effects of a cognitive-behavioral stress management program for women undergoing breast cancer treatments. Results indicate the intervention decreased feelings of depression, increased optimism, and made participants feel that having cancer had some positive impact on their lives.

Statistical Data Included, Depression, Mental, Depression (Mood disorder), Cancer patients, Cognitive therapy, Optimism

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Concerns about breast cancer and relations to psychosocial well-being in a multiethnic sample of early-stage patients

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Research shows how ethnicity and age influence reaction to diagnosis of early-stage breast cancer. Hispanic women usually showed strongest disruptions, while younger women were most concerned about partner reaction and sexual issues.

Research, Influence, Quality of life, Ethnicity

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