BREAST-CANCER SURVIVORS - AN EXPLORATION OF QUALITY-OF-LIFE ISSUES

This article explores long-term survivorship (5 years or longer) throu gh focus group discussions with women who have experienced breast canc er. The data revealed four major themes, integration of the disease pr ocess into current life, change in perspective, and unresolved issues. These data begin to shed light on the issues of breast cancer survivo rs and can provide a basis for development of a quantitative instrumen t to be tested with larger populations