FAMILY : Breast Cancer’s Effect on Mates
When breast cancer strikes, a woman must make difficult decisions about her treatment at the same time she confronts her fear, anger and other feelings.
The disease also has a tremendous emotional effect on her husband or partner.
The Y-ME National Organization for Breast Cancer Information and Support offers a booklet that addresses the emotional issues men may face.
Based on interviews with men whose partners have breast cancer, the booklet focuses on feelings, although the medical aspects have been reviewed by psychologists and physicians for accuracy.
Free single copies of “When the Woman You Love Has Breast Cancer” may be ordered by writing: Y-ME, Box PB, 18220 Harwood Ave., Homewood, Ill. 60430.
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