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Abstract
Advanced breast cancer also called metastatic breast cancer, a breast cancer that has extend from the breast to other organs in the body as lungs, liver, bones and brain. Women with advanced breast cancer needs a special care called as a palliative care needs related to psychological, social, spiritual, physical and educational aspects. Aim of the study is to assess palliative care needs of women with advanced breast cancer. A cross sectional descriptive design was used in this study. A convenient sample of 100 women with advanced breast cancer was selected. The used tool divided into two parts including demographic data and palliative care needs of women with advanced breast cancer. This study was conducted in inpatient department and outpatient clinics at Oncology Center Mansoura University (OCMU). The results of this study revealed that women identified the greatest areas of palliative care needs in relation to poor activity of daily living (41%), the majority of the studied women had poor psychological issues (98%), all of them had poor financial issues and additional expenses (100%), the highest percentage of them had severe physical symptoms (85%), about two third of them had poor self-dependence issues (69%) and poor educational issues (73%). All women suffered from additional expenses as a financial need of women with advanced breast cancer and Psychological needs were the highest palliative care needs among women with advanced breast cancer followed by physical symptoms and social needs. Developing palliative care programme to oncology nurses who caring for women with advanced breast cancer, establish written protocol about palliative care for women with advanced breast cancer and strategies should focus on prevention and early detection programmes to decrease the rate of advanced breast cancer women in Egypt.