�Everything happened so quickly� Living through events immediately before and after initial breast cancer diagnosis: an exploratory study of the experiences of a group of women in Cape Town, South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorNadasen, Krishnavelh Kathleen
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-07T12:11:44Z
dc.date.available2017-11-07T12:11:44Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article provides information on an aspect of the author�s research on colored women�s experiences of breast cancer and deals specifically with events immediately before and after the initial diagnosis. The experiences of this group of South African women have remained largely undocumented. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 colored women. Qualitative data were collected and analyzed using thematic content analysis. The main themes that emerged relate to the discovery of the lump, reaction time, response to diagnosis, the question of whether a lumpectomy or a mastectomy should be conducted, counseling and family reactions. The findings show, inter alia, that these women are not accorded sufficient time to deal with the magnitude of the diagnosis and that access to appropriate counseling is insufficient. This study has implications for health professionals and for women in general and suggests further areas of investigation within the field of breast cancer research.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNadasen, K.K. (2017). �Everything happened so quickly� Living through events immediately before and after initial breast cancer diagnosis: an exploratory study of the experiences of a group of women in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Women's Health Care, 6(4): 1000381en_US
dc.identifier.issn2167-0420
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2167-0420.1000381
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/3256
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherOMICS Internationalen_US
dc.rights� 2017 Nadasen KK. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectBreast canceren_US
dc.subjectWomenen_US
dc.subjectHealthen_US
dc.subjectMastectomyen_US
dc.title�Everything happened so quickly� Living through events immediately before and after initial breast cancer diagnosis: an exploratory study of the experiences of a group of women in Cape Town, South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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