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Themes about Body Image and Sexuality and the impact on young minority women in Regard to Breast Cancer Student's Code and Instructor's Name Institution

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For instance, the physical changes in young women’s appearance which arise as a result of cancer treatment can significantly change the manner in which such young women perceive or think about themselves as well as their bodies which may ultimately increase the risk for the sexual problems. It can truly be asserted that body image concerns as well as sexual problems are not only prevalent in young minority women, but they are also known to distress most of them who had been diagnosed and eventually treated after suffering from breast cancer.

Themes about Body Image and Sexuality and the impact on young minority women in Regard to Breast Cancer Student's Code and Instructor's Name Institution

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Body Image and Sexuality 1Literature Review on Themes about Body Image and Sexuality and the impact on youngminority women in Regard to Breast CancerStudent’s NameCourse Code and NameInstructor’s NameInstitution’s NameCity StateDate of Submission
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Body Image and Sexuality 2Grogan & Mechan (2016) assert that for most of the young minority women in most partsof the world, breast cancer still remains both a dreaded and common experience. It is thus quite normal for the diagnosis of the ailment (breast cancer) to evoke intense fear, anger, and grief among the affected women. However, some women affected with breast cancer will face the crisis as it is and even master it without necessarily developing any severe sexual dysfunctions orpsychiatric disorders. The options given to young women of both “breast conservation” and reconstruction give the young minority women a completely new sense and view of control regarding their treatment. As a result, they prove to be quite successful in helping the young minority women feel comfortable with their new bodies as ever before. However, it is important to note that the effectiveness associated with breast reconstruction and conservation in the amelioration or prevention of sexual problems after the diagnosis of breast cancer actually remains less clear. For majority of survivors who have been afflicted with breast cancer, the issue of sexual problems has actually emerged as one of the significant and also distressing “sequelae’ of the ailment as well as its treatment. This is attributed to the fact that most of the sexual problems are not only diagnosed early, but they are also not treated. White et al (2016) asserts that one of the most vital and unstudied risk factor that is linked to sexual adjustment in young minority women as opposed to the Caucasian women is the issue to do with body image. For instance, the physical changes in young women’s appearance which arise as a result of cancer treatment can significantly change the manner in which such young women perceive or think about themselves as well as their bodies which may ultimately increase the risk for the sexual problems. It is the view of some researchers that there is a high probability that body image actually predicted the sexual dissatisfaction and sexual dysfunction of young women, especially after being affected by
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Body Image and Sexuality 3breast cancer. This is attributed to the fact that mediation analyses indicated that body image wasa mediator of the association between changes that emanated in caser and sexual dysfunction as well as sexual dissatisfaction. It can truly be asserted that body image concerns as well as sexual problems are not only prevalent in young minority women, but they are also known to distress most of them who had been diagnosed and eventually treated after suffering from breast cancer. It was also apparent that most of the young minority women highly underwent numerous changes in the physical appearance of their bodies (Kaysen et al, 2015). That part, it was ascertained that concerns about the body image may also be applied through a sexual context as a result an increase in exposure of the young minority women’s body in sexual activities. It is a known fact that young minority women afflicted with breast cancer are faced with challenges which are associated to changes in physical appearance which can lead to disfigurement because of treatment. Such challenges make some of the young minority women who have suffered from cancer to be rejected by their partners because of their poor body images. Breast cancer has the ability of affecting intimate relationships and the sexual functioning of breast cancer survivors. Survivorship of Breast cancer and SexualityEven though scholars have asserted that some proportion of the interpersonal, emotional, and physical disruptions that are usually linked with the diagnosis as well as the treatment of breast cancer are known to enhance over time, other researchers have asserted that there is severity and persistence of sexual problems in survivors of breast cancer. Apart from the fact thatbreast cancer results in sexual dysfunction among people affected with breast cancer. It is also important to note that the ailment can also have a serious impact on the broader or wider sexual experiences of young minority women as opposed to the Caucasian women (Tsong et al, 2016).
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Body Image and Sexuality 4However, it is important to note that the impact of breast cancer on the sexual experiences of young minority women is not just limited to changes in particular sexual behaviors such as the frequency of getting orgasms but rather, it also includes changes in the feelings of the young women’s sexual desire, sexual attraction, emotional expressions, and physical sensations. For majority of the breast cancer survivors, one of the most distressing and common problems that they encounter are the sexual problems. For young minority women who have survived from breast cancer, nurses proof that mostof them have together with their sexual partners experienced genital pains, difficulty in the achievement of orgasm, and even a decrease in the frequency of having sex. In addition to that, young minority women concurred that they also experienced significant changes in their own ability of not only engaging, bit also enjoying numerous sexual activities. For instance, some of them asserted that they experienced increased distress that is closely linked with having discomfort in having sex with their partners in the nude, undressing in front of their sexual partners, and even feeling less attractive due to cancer treatment. Nurses should help patients affected with breast cancer by offering them social and psychological support.Owing to the fact that breast cancer is actually one of the most common types of cancer that affects women in countries such as the UK in which approximately 50,000 women in the country are diagnosed with the ailment, a thematic analysis of the young minority women indicates that they are greatly concerned about their body images (Ola et al, 2016). The issue of Mastectomy, which involves removal of either one or both of breasts is known to have negative impacts on the young minority women because they assert that it not only leads in the lack of sexual attractiveness, but it also results in body dissatisfaction among the affected people. Accounts of young minority women who have suffered from breast cancer indicate that
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