New analysis examines impact of breast cancer on African American survivors’ marital relationships – News-Medical.Net

Most African American women described successfully navigating the challenges of a breast cancer diagnosis with their partners, finds a new analysis from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
However, one-third of the sample indicated relationship distress.
We conducted a thematic analysis to examine how a breast cancer diagnosis affected not only African American patients but also how patients perceived their breast cancer to have affected their husbands’ health and their marriage….

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