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Jean Campbell: One of the big things that we had to deal with, with ladies from Hispanic
cultures was the feeling that they were being punished by god for having done something
wrong, okay? And with the Chinese who believed in reincarnation, some of them believed they
were being punished for something they had done in the previous lives.
There were a lot of myths that we had to break through before we could actually help with
anything. A lot of the ladies, especially the Hispanic women, were very afraid about
losing their hair, about losing their *** and that this would be something that would
influence whether or not their partner or their husband stayed with them, and it was
all very sad because they put a tremendous value on keeping these outside features as
a way of feeling secure, instead of feeling secure about who they were.
So we would try and zero in on their strengths and what they would want to be doing when
treatment was over and that this was an opportunity to think about that new beginning that needs
to come for everyone after breast cancer because there’s no going back.
Jay K. Harness, MD: That’s right. Now your lives are changed forever, aren’t they Jean?
Jean Campbell: Yes, they are. They are.