Abstract:Because getting a cancer diagnosis causes the patient to try to cope with physical problems on the one hand and uncertainty about the future on the other [3,4]. Moreover, getting a cancer diagnosis causes the patients to experience feelings such as fear, hopelessness, helplessness, guilt, and while the individual becomes psychologically aggravated, getting a breast cancer diagnosis is considered as an additional stressor that seriously shakes the individual psychosocially [4-6]. Because the individual who is d… Show more
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