[Psychological component of fight against smoking in the framework of primary prevention of pulmonary cancer].

The study discusses certain aspects related to primary prophylaxis of lung cancer. These include objective parameters of smoking and psychological aspects of tobacco dependence of smokers as well as their awareness of health hazard of tobacco and motivations for cessation of smoking. Social and psychological reasons and patterns of smoking were studied in 400 workers and clerks of industrial enterprises.

[The attitude of cancer patients to their own diagnosis].

The wide spectrum of viewpoints on how fully should a cancer patient be informed of his or her disease made it interesting to evaluate patients' own attitude to the issue. A questionnaire was offered to 280 cancer patients to assess the degree of awareness of their disease as well as psychologic preparedness to face the true diagnosis. As many as 93.

[The social and work activities of patients after the radical treatment of lung cancer].

One hundred and twenty-six radically treated patients with lung cancer showed a decrease in the majority of parameters of socio-occupational activity. A comparative study in two groups of patients (lobectomy-95 and pneumonectomy-31) established a correlation between the extent of surgery and degree of socio-occupational activity rehabilitation which was most pronounced in terms of patients' intercourse, resumption of occupational activity and duration of rehabilitation and invalidity periods. Psychoemotional status of lobectomized patients proved better than that in cases having undergone pneumonectomy.

[An experience with the rehabilitation of breast cancer patients after radical treatment].

Breast cancer out-patients rehabilitation may be similarly effective for all tumor localizations provided the peculiarities of primary treatment are considered. Its application opens up new vistas since it ensures an improvement and stabilization of mental and emotional state and reduces anxiety in cancer patients. A course of rehabilitation is followed by the change for better functional indexes and stimulation of interest in taking up an occupation.