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A Patient Is at a Physician's Office Following the End

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A patient is at a physician's office following the end of treatment for breast cancer. The patient is not scheduled to receive any more radiation or chemotherapy at this time. With treatment behind her, the patient can now look again to the future. Which phase of psychological adjustment is this patient experiencing?


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Brain Scans

Imaging tests such as MRI or CT scans used to examine the structure or function of the brain.

Personality

The unique set of emotional, thought, and behavioral patterns that define an individual’s personal style and influence their interactions with the environment.

Extraversion

A personality trait characterized by outgoingness, high energy, and an active engagement with the external world.

Neuroticism

A pattern in someone's behavior identified by nervousness, trepidation, instability in emotions, apprehensiveness, covetousness, exasperation, rivalry, and being solitary.

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