Abstract:
One of breast cancer treatment is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy has a
physical and psychological impact on breast cancer patient. This condition
triggers the emergency of every individual’s response in responding to the
changes experienced and the efforts also coping that are used to resolve problems
that occur. The purpose of literature review study research is assassement the
response of breast cancer patient related to physical changes after chemotherapy.
Literature review study of research design with focuses three database such as
Google Schoolar, Google Cendikia, and Sciencedirect,and the keyword used
include:”the experience of breast cancer patient”,”response to physical changes
in cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy”,”experience of post chemotherapy
cancer patient”. From the research of Literature Review 10 journals that have
been analyzed produce five themes, such as responses to physiological changes,
responses to phycological changes, responses to changes experienced after
chemotherapy, coping mechanisms in dealing with impacts, and efforts made in
dealing with impacts and responding to goals from research that is about
knowladge, responses, and coping mechanisms of breast cancer pastients. Tthe
conclusion that the result of research from Literatur Review there are responses
related to physiczl and psychological changes for breast cancer patient after
chemotherapy, and for further researchers are expected to be able to examine
more closely with the phenomenological approach about responses breast cancer
patient related to pyhsical changes after chemotherapy.
