Breast cancer treatment

Psychological rehabilitation of women with breast cancer

In modern oncology been known disparity between the ever complex and sophisticated methods of the special (biologically based)
breast cancer treatment (rapid, radiation, chemotherapy, etc.) and lack of knowledge about the nature, characteristics and the degree of response from the psyche of cancer patients. In domestic practice experience psychological help cancer patients is very small. In literature, this issue highlights the lack of full - so the there are shortages of specific programs and psychological literature (as translated or domestic).

In this connection is very important and legitimate further development of a new discipline - and develop new programs that will be stored all the psychological aspects of cancer - from participating psychological component in the development and progression of the tumor to psychological care to the relatives of patients.

A program consisted of the following links: psychological counseling, psycho diagnostics emotional and volitional sphere, the choice of psychological methods of correction, psihokorrektsiyu individual, group psihokorrektsiyu and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment.

Psychological work with this group of patients characterized by the following specifics:

1. All patients were conducted psychological counseling and psychiatric diagnosis to identify the level of depression and anxiety, which was determined by the willingness of patients to group work. As an indicator of anxiety and depression were used Zung Depression Scale, a questionnaire reactive and personal anxiety Spilbergera - Hanina, as well as psihovegetativnye indicators (ITC and JI technique Lyushera).

All onkobolnye (56 pers.) Request the assistance of a psychologist, have expressed disturbing-depressive and asteno-ipohondrichesky syndromes and were katamnesticheskom stage of treatment.

2. After psychological counseling 44 patients were sent directly to the group psihokorrektsiyu, and from 12 patients was continued individual work.

3. After passing the individual psihokorrektsii Breast Cancer patients were sent to the group work. Group psihokorrektsiya consisted of 2 phases, each of which includes 8 lessons.