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Coping With the Changes that Breast Cancer Brings
The biggest change a diagnosis of breast cancer brings is the loss of feeling in control of your life, your body, your future.
All of a sudden we are casting about for ways to feel in control once again. Our fear, our anger, our confusion only compound our feelings of being out of control now that our body has let us down. We are being challenged to find the coping mechanisms that will get us through the anxiety of diagnostic tests to determine the size, location and possible spread of our breast cancer. We need the presence of mind to get …