Psycho-Social Rehabilitation After Curative Breast Cancer Treatment: A Review.

INTRODUCTION: With advances in early detection and multimodal therapy, survival after breast cancer has significantly improved. However, completion of curative treatment is not necessarily the end of patient suffering. Survivors frequently experience persistent psychological distress, social role disruption, altered body image, sexual dysfunction, fear of recurrence (FCR), and occupational challenges. Psycho-social rehabilitation is therefore a critical component of survivorship care.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Search engines and PubMed were used to look for the references with the keywords, "psychological Rehabilitation, Social rehabilitation, Pscho-social rehabilitation".

CONCLUSION: This narrative review summarises the burden of psycho-social morbidity following curative breast cancer treatment, outlines validated assessment tools, and discusses evidence-based interventions including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based interventions, peer support, family therapy, vocational rehabilitation, and structured survivorship care planning.