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Tatiania Estapé

Tatiania Estapé

Barcelona University, Spain

Title: Coping with children when a mother has breast cancer

Biography

Biography: Tatiania Estapé

Abstract

Cancer is a taboo disease that implies psychosocial repercussions on the patient and his family. These range from psychological problems such as anxiety and depression, to social, personal and relationship changes. Because of this, you do not have a disease that involves the affected person, but also the people in your environment. The family of the patient suffers the same psychosocial consequences, except physical suffering, besides having to take care of the sick person. It is very important to take into account the life cycle of the patient. One of the important focuses today is the attention when the sick person has to take care of their loved ones. No doubt this is the case when they have children. Today, motherhood in many western countries has been delayed at later ages. This brings us to a scenario in which cancer sometimes appears when there are still small children. We refer to women with breast cancer, as it is coindiciendo the birth of the first child with a stage in which the disease has increased their risk. Thus we find women who are diagnosed with breast cancer while still having small children. It is a new facet that we must address as psychologists. We will explain the need to adapt the information according to the development age of each child, as well as to be attentive to those changes that may happen in the children and how to approach them according to the stage of the child's life and of the family itself.