Article Life Satisfaction in Women With Breast Cancer1

it was estimated that in 2013, there were around 40,030 deaths due to breast cancer, of which 39,620 of those were of women. These alarming figures place breast cancer in second place for deaths caused by cancer in women (American Cancer Society, 2013). In Portugal, according to the General Directorate for Health (2013), regardless of medical advances, breast cancer was responsible for 1,546 deaths in women in 2011, corresponding to a mortality rate of 29,5%. According to Ogden (2004), the complexity of the study of breast cancer is partly due to the changes that this entails in women’s lives, changing the roles that contribute to their identity formation, their expectations for the future, thei