Psychological Characteristics Of Women With Breast Cancer

Today, cancer is one of the main causes of death in the world that is known. Breast cancer is themost common cancer in women. The disease that in addition to the individual, effects thecommunity.What is important to consider the psychological aspects of the disease. Depression isone of the effects of cancer. Depressed people lose better opportunities in the rest of his life forliving. Hope force the man to be ready for work, provide flexibility, vitality and life satisfaction canbe increased. Patients with malignant disease have a higher depression and their hope is the lowerrate of patients whose disease is a benign. This indicates that it is broadly to decrease depression incancer patients need to promote hope they understand. In another study also showed that thespiritual experiences of women with breast cancer is more than in healthy women. Women whowere satisfied with their relationship reported less body image disturbance than did dissatisfiedwomen after 2 weeks. Being married was also associated with less body image disturbance at thattime. The protective effect of these relational variables was still observable 1 year later. Changes inbody image disturbance over time were explained by the negative impacts of mastectomy andchemotherapy. Also a study is showed that Spirituality and social support breast cancer patientshave an impact on growth after injury. With education and interventions that include increasinglevels of spirituality and social support, they can improve patients post-traumatic growth. Weknow that some patients after treatment show positive psychological characteristics such asextraversion, sociability, devotion, altruism, resilience, spirituality, optimism and some other Thenegative characteristics such as anxiety, loneliness, depression, sadness, anger and frustrationmanifest. It can be said that there are Complex relationship between psychological characteristicsand breast cancer. If we improve positive psychological characteristics, spirituality and religiousbeliefs in women, we can treat patients easily and. love, devotion, and spirituality help us morethan other.