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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(24):1800-1801; doi:10.1093/jnci/djh346
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© 2004 Oxford University Press

EDITORIAL

Myth-Busters: Telling the True Story of Breast Cancer Survivorship

Leslie R. Schover

Correspondence to: Leslie R. Schover, PhD, Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd.—243, Houston, TX 77030-4009 (e-mail: lschover@mdanderson.org)

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The conventional wisdom is that breast cancer devastates women’s lives, even when the disease is controlled by modern, multimodality treatments. We, the general public, take our stereotypes not so much from real life but from novels, movies of the week, and soap operas. Our poor heroine loses her breast (or at least gains an ugly scar that would turn off any but the most desperate man). Needless to say, her sex life falls apart. If she is single, her boyfriend leaves her. If she is married, she ends up divorced while her husband finds a younger partner who flaunts a perfect bosom in skimpy halter tops when our heroine picks up the kids for weekend visits. Of course we learn that our heroine the survivor only got breast cancer because of stress. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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