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Breast cancer and Chemotherapy Resilience: Exploring the experiences of female survivors in Ghana

2020-12-10

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<h4>Background: </h4> Chemotherapy is the most common treatment option for breast cancer in Ghana. Chemotherapy brings about unpleasant and traumatic experiences due to the effects of drugs on patients. Despite contexts specific variations, recent literature show improvement in breast cancer survival rates globally. <h4>Methods: </h4> This study aimed to explore factors that influenced resilience among women who c...

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-119049/v1
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