28-11-2009, 11:18
Hello.
I believe that one of the first steps she should take is to talk with other women who have breast cancer. What did they do? What treatment worked for them? How did it feel? How did they manage? She can then go back and discuss what she's learned with her family.
Family, or the equivalent of family, is extremely important. A woman diagnosed with breast cancer needs a tremendous amount of support. A woman's breasts are so much a part of her body, and if they're taken away, often women feel that some of their femininity has been taken away, and that's not true. The family can be enormously supportive and helpful in this respect, to provide comfort and confidence. They need to be supportive of her feelings, and supportive of the route of therapy that is chosen.
But at the end, she must make her own decisions about treatment. She should gather all the information she can, from doctors, from other women, and from discussion with family, and then she must choose her own approach.
I believe that one of the first steps she should take is to talk with other women who have breast cancer. What did they do? What treatment worked for them? How did it feel? How did they manage? She can then go back and discuss what she's learned with her family.
Family, or the equivalent of family, is extremely important. A woman diagnosed with breast cancer needs a tremendous amount of support. A woman's breasts are so much a part of her body, and if they're taken away, often women feel that some of their femininity has been taken away, and that's not true. The family can be enormously supportive and helpful in this respect, to provide comfort and confidence. They need to be supportive of her feelings, and supportive of the route of therapy that is chosen.
But at the end, she must make her own decisions about treatment. She should gather all the information she can, from doctors, from other women, and from discussion with family, and then she must choose her own approach.