00-00-0000 This inquiry describes the experience of 45 female breast cancer survivors using Schutz's interpretation of phenomenology as the theoretical framework.

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This inquiry describes the experience of 45 female breast cancer
survivors using Schutz's interpretation of phenomenology as the theoretical
framework. The research design is a multicase, comparative situational
analysis. Breast cancer survival is explored from the points of view
of all reflection participants. A dialectic is formed that juxtaposes etic
and emic views of survival to enhance understanding of the meaning
of breast cancer survival. Hermeneutic analysis yielded commonalities
in meanings, situations, and life experiences. Analysis was further
divided into

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