Meeting Psychosocial Needs of Women with Breast Cancer

by Maria Hewitt, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, et al.

In Meeting Psychosocial Needs of Women with Breast Cancer , the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine examines the psychosocial consequences of the cancer experience. The book focuses specifically on breast cancer in women because this group has the largest survivor population (over 2 million) and this disease is the most extensively studied cancer from the standpoint of psychosocial effects. The book characterizes the psychosocial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309091292
• ISBN13: 9780309091299
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"