The present paper is a rough outline presenting the analyses of the diseasesituation in patients with gynecologic malignancy. Their confrontation with a disease such as cancer, including all later anticipated therapeutic measures, is presented as a stress situation in which the level or manner of tackling it was most interesting. Knowledge of the processes of defensive reaction as well as of the processes of coping with this situation should makethe information of an adequate psychosocial treatment of this group of patients possible.
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