Helen Beesley - Publications

Warranting the decision-maker, not the decision: How healthcare practitioners evaluate the legitimacy of patients' unprompted requests for risk-reducing mastectomy.

Journal: Patient education and counseling

Published: October 19, 2018

Qualitative analysis of how patients decide that they want risk-reducing mastectomy, and the implications for surgeons in responding to emotionally-motivated patient requests.

Journal: PloS one

Published: October 24, 2016

How do women at increased breast cancer risk perceive and decide between risks of cancer and risk-reducing treatments? A synthesis of qualitative research.

Journal: Psycho-oncology

Published: July 19, 2016

The intensity of breast cancer patients' relationships with their surgeons after the first meeting: Evidence that relationships are not 'built' but arise from attachment processes.

Journal: European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology

Published: August 20, 2015

Are patient-nurse relationships in breast cancer linked to adult attachment style?

Journal: Journal of advanced nursing

Published: March 26, 2015

'Getting back to normal' or 'a new type of normal'? A qualitative study of patients' responses to the existential threat of cancer.

Journal: European journal of cancer care

Published: November 04, 2014

Risk, worry and cosmesis in decision-making for contralateral risk-reducing mastectomy: analysis of 60 consecutive cases in a specialist breast unit.

Journal: Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Published: April 20, 2012

'You're putting thoughts into my head': a qualitative study of the readiness of patients with breast, lung or prostate cancer to address emotional needs through the first 18 months after diagnosis.

Journal: Psycho-oncology

Published: February 21, 2012