Diagnosis of breast cancer: feelings, behaviors and expectations of women

Abstract

The breast cancer is the responsible malign neoplasm for the largest deaths number in women in the whole world as in Brazil. Considering that woman lives singular situations, after discovering the disease, that is interested area for health care assistance. This study aims to identify the feelings behaviors and expectations of women front of the breast cancer by a systematic review of the literature. It was identified eleven articles in LILACS and BDENF library by means breast cancer and diagnosis (of breast cancer) descriptors, published in last ten years. The article analysis demonstrated feelings and behaviors as fear, denial, disease acceptance, seeking for the cause and the constraint. As expectations it was possible to find a new life perception after the cancer. For an humanistic approach the client with breast cancer diagnosis it is opportune to consider the emotions unchained from the confirmation of the diagnosis, almost always associated to the death, to the fear and the despair. Understanding the subjects concerning to the psycho-social adjustment involved on the breast cancer theme, it allows to the health professional, specifically Nurses, to evaluate and to attend the woman in an appropriate way.