Self Blame: A Study Of Self-Fault In Lung Cancer Patients

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Self-blame was witnessed in lung cancer patients who were smokers at the time of the diagnosis or had a history of smoking due to the stigma. Many patients felt responsibility for cancer and shameful of themselves (Dirkse et al., 2014). A patient who was a smoker for 41 years have expressed this feeling;
Another patient has described her feelings of self-blame;
Feelings of shame and guilt may be generated due to bias created against the lung cancer patients due to limited beliefs that this disease is solely caused by smoking. Many people believe that the lung cancer is caused by smoking which may create a bias against the patients. A patient refused to receive any financial benefits and another patient kept the disease only to herself.

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