摘要：One of the issues of major interest in relation to breast cancer has been patients’ adjustment to the changes in body image
that treatment produces. The goals of the present study are related to various aspects of body image and self-esteem. These
objectives include: a) to examine the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention designed to enhance body image and raise
self-esteem, by comparing an intervention and a control group at each of three measurement points: pre-treatment, posttreatment
and follow up, and b) to analyze the influence of sociodemographic and medical (type of surgery and type of
treatment) variables on body image and self-esteem. Results show that, in terms of body image, the intervention group
scores higher in post-treatment and follow-up, whereas for self-esteem the difference only shows up in the follow-up, the
time elapsed variable being relevant. In relation to type of surgery, women with a tumorectomy had a more positive body
image than women with a mastectomy.
关键词：Body image, breast cancer, self-esteem, mastectomy
