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"Struggling to Accept the New Breast as Part of My Body" - The Challenge of Immediate Breast Reconstruction in Women With Breast Cancer.

Cancer Nurs

June 2022

Author Affiliations: Chung-Ang University Red Cross College of Nursing (Dr Han); College of Nursing, Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, Yonsei University (Drs S. H. Kim and S. Kim), Seoul; Department of Nursing, Korea National University of Transportation (Dr Jin), Chungcheongbuk-do; and Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine (Dr Lee), Seoul, Korea.

Background: Women have difficulties in making decisions and experiences an unexpectedly long recovery period after immediate breast reconstruction. There are still many limitations in understanding the overall changes in life experienced by women with breast cancer before and after immediate breast reconstruction.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the challenges experienced by women with breast cancer undergoing immediate breast reconstruction and how they coped with these problems.

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