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Reach‐to‐recovery program of the American cancer society
Author(s) -
Wiesenthal Margery
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19840201)53:3+<825::aid-cncr2820531336>3.0.co;2-n
Subject(s) - medicine , visitor pattern , mastectomy , breast cancer , cancer , general surgery , computer science , programming language
The Reach‐to‐Recovery program and its importance is explained by asking readers to imagine themselves as patients recovering from a mastectomy. The expansion of the Reach‐to‐Recovery program is discussed including reconstruction visitation, preoperative visits, the man‐to‐man program, teaching breast selfexamination, and the new “specialized visitor”.