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M J Krant

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PubMed1981

Psychosocial impact of gynecologic cancer.

The stress that a cancer diagnosis places on a patient and family is frequently aggravated by management and treatment, unless considerable attention is paid to psychologic and social coping and adaptational issues. Cancer arouses feelings of helplessness, dependency, guilt, alienation, and vulnerability, and depending on the stage of illness and on the degree of therapeutic mutilation of genital organs, long-term suffering may ensue unless attention is paid to the support-systems available to the patient. Support includes information sharing, exploring fears and fantasies, helping patients feel some element of control, and, not infrequently, putting patients in touch with others who had adapted to the experience. Considerable attention is now being paid to sexual counseling in recognition of the need for intimate bonding that exists in people. The physician's responsibility in cancer management is to provide resource directly or by referral in order to maintain the morale system of the patient and family over a long time period.

Body Image↗
PubMed1978

Caring for the terminally ill: expectations of patient and family.

Preparation for an "easeful" death is the responsibility of the patient, the family, and the medical staff. Two basic elements are acknowledgment and communication, which can be helped or hindered by the physician's way of informing the patient and family about the immediate future. Inadequate communication can result in a disturbing death for the patient and create ill feelings and guilt in the family members and the medical staff.

Attitude to Death↗
PubMed1977

Moral dilemmas in clinical cancer experimentation.

An examination of certain moral tensions that have developed in clinical cancer experimentation is offered. It is argued that the individual partner must be addressed in his singular unique position, rather than as a potential for the future good.

Antineoplastic Agents↗
PubMed1975

A death in the family.

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Attitude of Health Personnel↗