[Validation of Body Image Relationship Scale for women with breast cancer].

Purpose: To validate the instrument Body Image Relationship Scale (BIRS) for Brazilian women with breast cancer.

Methods: The instrument was administered by trained interviewers to 139 women who used the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). All of them had been submitted to cancer treatments between 2006 and 2010.

Experience of sexuality after breast cancer: a qualitative study with women in rehabilitation.

Objective: to comprehend the psychosocial and cultural repercussions of breast cancer and its treatment on the sexuality of women.

Method: this is a qualitative study grounded in the Sexual Scripts Theory with the participation of 23 women who were interviewed and participated in focus groups discussion.

Results: each category was related to a level of the sexual scripts.

Breast cancer and sexuality: the impacts of breast cancer treatment on the sex lives of women in Brazil.

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of the impact on women's sexual lives after diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer in Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo. The study involved 36 women, 15 of whom were interviewed and the remainder of whom participated in focus and body-image group discussions. Data collection was undertaken between 2008 and 2010.

[Body image of women with breast cancer: a systematic review of literature].

Women experience a major process of reshaping their body image when they deal with breast cancer. This article seeks to understand the relationship that breast cancer and its treatment have in the process of (re)construction of a woman's body image. The ultimate objective is to promote knowledge to train health professionals to become more aware of a woman's quality of life.