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The psychosocial issues facing young women confronting a cancer diagnosis are extremely complex. A diagnosis of cancer finds any individual unprepared. The realities that one was accustomed to in everyday life change overnight, and many uncertainties enter into this new life scenario. It is a frightening and complicated new world with difficulties at psychological, social, and emotional levels, the key concern, however, being that of individual survival.
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Kyriakides, S. (2008). Psychosocial Issues in Young Women Facing Cancer and Pregnancy: The Role of Patient Advocacy. In: Cancer and Pregnancy. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71274-9_21
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