Improving Breast Cancer Care Through Theater
11/16/2013
1200 pink balloons flying in the sky of Sofia, Bulgaria, as part of a campaign to raise awareness and promote prevention and treatment of breast cancer, Oct. 29, 2013.
Hello again and welcome back for more As It Is. I’m June Simms with Mario Ritter in Washington.
Theater has been used over the years to help people learn about everything from AIDS to mental health issues. Now there is a play aimed at helping doctors and other medical workers understand their patients with breast cancer. Mario Ritter has that report.
Theater Helps Improve Care for Breast Cancer Patients
It is the news that no woman ever wants to hear:
“You have invasive breast cancer.”
While this is only a play, the discovery of breast cancer can be crushing for many women. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide.
Zulima Palacio is a breast cancer patient in the United States. She well remembers the shock when her doctor gave her the results of her biopsy.
“The first time she told me, I was numb, completely like, Huh? Like, I don’t get it. Not me. This is something that happens to other people, not me.”
Ms. Palacio has the support of her husband, friends, sympathetic nurses and doctors she trusts. But not all breast cancer patients have that.
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