Psychosocial Issues among Breast Cancer Patients in Asian Developing Countries

Sajid Iqbal and Shazia Gul

International Journal of Asian Social Science, 2016, vol. 6, issue 6, 379-385

Abstract: Cancer, which is known by different names across the world, is a pathological condition that leads to the abnormal and uncontrolled growth of normal body cells. Due to ever increasing predisposing risk factors, high recurrence rate, and chronicity, cancer are counted as second major cause of death after the cardiovascular diseases (Agarwal and Ramakant, 2008; Naeem et al., 2008; Shulman et al., 2010; Bano, 2013). Due to the connotation of its name, cancer causes apprehension in society and the patients with cancer face different challenges in their life. Although physical sufferings related to the disease are very painful and hard to survive with, the psychosocial excruciation associated with it is even more difficult to be faced in some countries including Pakistan.

Keywords: Developing countries; Breast cancer Management; Cancer and psychosocial issues. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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