THE MASTECTOMY AND THE CORPORAL REFRAIMING IN A FEMININE BODY

Abstract

The Breast Cancer is the second most frequent type of cancer around the world and the most common amongst women. The mastectomy surgery is the most invasive from all surgical treatments for this kind of pathology, and it brings serious implications to the patient. This article aims to comprehend the corporal reframing in women that undergone this procedure, as well look the patient perception about her self-image and their self-awareness on the prior and post stages of the surgery; identify the psychological impacts caused by the surgery; evaluate the impacts of the surgery and the breast cancer itself in the social life of the patient. The study counted in literature researches and field researches, in which a database was structured through a semi-structured interview, applied at two distinct moments – before and after the surgery – with four participants that were under oncologic treatment in Salvador– BA. With the obtained data, it was chosen four categories for analysis. As a result, it was concluded that receiving the diagnostic for cancer made the patients reflect about question like the meaning of life and the fear of death; To the patients, aesthetics doesn’t concern only what is beautiful, but reflects the identification with the feminine; it was also observed that the belief in God is something that manages and improves the establishment of trust in the treatment and in the possibility of a cure; and the actions of a multidisciplinary care team may optimize the treatment when they work in a human way.