SELF-CARE AND CERVICAL CANCER IN MEXICAN WOMEN

Abstract

Cervical cancer, as women's disease, remains as one of the leading causes of death in Mexicans, one Aztec woman dies every two hours by this disease; this situation affects the environment in which she develops, her family, the society and contributes to human, economic and productive losses. For this reason, it is very important that Mexican women apply Dorothea Orem's Self-care Theory in their person, starting by taking conscience of their body, under the guide, education and supervision of the nursing professional, in order that the woman learns Self-care towards the early detection of the disease, and in case of having it, to adapt to the new life acquired from the diagnosis and the treatment, disease that alters their body in an internal, organic way, leaving an emotional scar, that needs to be taken care of, according to her beliefs and customs to initiate this event in her life.