Anxiety and depression and cognitive coping strategies and health locus of control in patients with ovary and uterus cancer during anticancer therapy.

Aim Of The Study: The crisis associated with cancer may contribute to the development of anxiety and depressive disorders. Contemporary psycho-oncology focuses on the psychological determinants of the cancer patients functioning to find which disease-coping strategies help the healing process, facilitate the establishment of a good therapeutic relationship and the process of adapting to difficult situations. Aim of the study was assess the psychological functioning of patients with cancer of reproductive organs in the cancer-treating process.

Self-perception of women after mastectomy as an ego defence mechanism. Comparison with a group of healthy women.

Aim Of The Study: Analysis of changes in self-perception in post-mastectomy patients and its comparison with self-perception of healthy women.

Material And Methods: The subjects of this study were 50 women. The main group was post-mastectomy patients involved in the meetings of the Amazons Club (25 women).