Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Nursing - Department of Surgical Nursing

For the breast an important role in sense of femininity, self-concept, and sexual attractiveness among the females. This physiological truth is overshadowed by the emotional and social values placed on the breast which minimizes its essential function, and accentuates femininity and sexuality. Many ladies have worried about the size, shape and appearance of their breasts ranging from mild satisfaction to serious anxiety, and depressive anxiety. In surgical treatment of the breast cancer, it is explicit that, removing a breast leads to grieving for loss, while conservative treatment provokes doubt about that breast with an apprehension that, cancer is as yet hiding and a mastectomy will demonstrate unavoidable

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