Gianluca Franceschini, Full Professor of General Surgery and Director of the Master’s Program in Integrated Therapies for Female Oncological Pathologies at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“How important is psychological support after a breast cancer diagnosis?
‘How important is it to have psychological support when there is a diagnosis of breast cancer?’
This is one of the questions that Giorgiana Pojar asked me in the fifth episode of ‘Voci in Viaggio’, the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital Foundation’s podcast, together with Carolina Marconi, who shared her experience with great authenticity.
The answer is simple: it’s part of the cure.
A diagnosis of breast cancer does not only involve the body. It also involves the person’s life, his emotions, his affections and his daily life. Fear, uncertainty and change are common experiences and deserve to be listened to and accompanied.
For this reason, psychological support is not an ‘extra’ help, but a fundamental element of a truly multidisciplinary treatment pathway. It can help the patient and her family to face the disease with greater awareness, strengthening personal resources throughout the therapeutic path.
In this video I share why, today more than ever, treating means taking care of the person as a whole, not just the disease.
The quality of care also depends on the quality of listening.
In the next few days I will share a new excerpt of the interview dedicated to another of the questions I am most frequently asked about breast cancer.”
Proceed to the video attached to the post.
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