Narrative: The Fear of Disfigurement in Cancer Patients

Fear of disfigurement affects patients with cancer, in whom the disease or its treatment leaves them permanently marked. Contrary to our thought, disfigurement is equally distressing to male patients, and it causes severe dislocation in their lives. We describe two cases in which disfigurement cause...

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Autores principales: Deshpande, Aruna, Ghooi, Ravindra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5545967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28827945
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_33_17
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spelling pubmed-55459672017-08-21 Narrative: The Fear of Disfigurement in Cancer Patients Deshpande, Aruna Ghooi, Ravindra Indian J Palliat Care Perspectives Fear of disfigurement affects patients with cancer, in whom the disease or its treatment leaves them permanently marked. Contrary to our thought, disfigurement is equally distressing to male patients, and it causes severe dislocation in their lives. We describe two cases in which disfigurement caused tremendous change in our patients; these cases underline the need for psychotherapy in patients suffering from cancer. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5545967/ /pubmed/28827945 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_33_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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