Breast cancer diagnosis and its treatment present women with significant challenges which require adjustment in several domains to ensure good health outcomes. Any psychosocial interventions to address the challenges need to be informed by empirical evidence. However, there is dearth of empirical literature in this regard in the Ghanaian context. To address some of these gaps, we explored the lived experiences of women living with breast in Ghana to inform healthcare practice and breast cancer research. In-depth individual interviews were conducted among 11 breast cancer patients receiving medical treatment for breast cancer. The interpretative phenomenological approach was used in the data analysis. Findings from the study showed that participants’ lived experiences cluster around three major themes; burdens of breast cancer treatments, alternative/herbal medicine use, and breast cancer stigma. These findings underscore the need for a multidisciplinary treatment approach to achieve optimum health outcomes among these groups of women.

乳腺癌的诊断及其治疗给女性带来了重大挑战，需要在多个领域进行调整以确保良好的健康结果。任何应对挑战的社会心理干预措施都需要以经验证据为依据。然而，在加纳的背景下，缺乏这方面的经验文献。为了解决其中的一些差距，我们探索了加纳患有乳房的女性的生活经历，为医疗保健实践和乳腺癌研究提供信息。对11名因乳腺癌接受治疗的乳腺癌患者进行了深入的个体访谈。解释性现象学方法用于数据分析。研究结果表明，参与者的生活经历围绕三个主要主题；乳腺癌治疗的负担，替代/草药的使用，以及乳腺癌的耻辱。这些研究结果强调需要采用多学科治疗方法来实现这些女性群体的最佳健康结果。