[en] Becoming ill with breast cancer has a significant psychological impact in the lives of women that unfortunately are affected by it. Although currently breast cancer is no longer a ?death sentence?, nor the treatment has necessarily to go by the experience of the breast ablation, in the patients? collective mind breast cancer is still associated with an adverse experience when facing the aggressive treatments, more or less extend. The comprehension of women?s fears implies also the transformations, alterations and losses that the treatment involves. This investigation had as main goals to study the subjective suffering experience in women with breast cancer. In addition, to investigate the psychopathological symptomatology that steams from the process of falling ill in a sample of women with breast cancer. To understand, specifically, which are the most affected suffering dimensions, and also trying to find which is the contribution of several sociodemographic and clinical variables to the variation of the suffering experience. It was also intended to identify in the sample the most prevalent psychopathological simptomatology and its variability taking into account clinical and sociodemographic variables. Moreover, to investigate if the suffering and the psychological variables are associated, and also to explore if the breast cancer illness? suffering contributes to worsening the severity of the psychopathological symptoms. Finally, it was intended to draw a psychological profile of the breast cancer patients included in the sample, taking into account the assessed empirical variables. 6 The results indicate that in this sample the most severe suffering experience is characterized by great psychological and sociorelacional suffering. The most prevalent psychopathological symptoms that stem from the disease are anxiety and obsession-compulsion. The educational level has a significant effect either in the suffering experience within the illness course, but also in the psychopathological symptoms. On the other hand, no significant effects were found concerning the impact of the clinical variables either in subjective suffering experience, either in the psychopathological simptomatology. There were found significant associations between all the studied suffering dimensions and the psychological simptomathology. Nonetheless, it has not been proved the hypothesis that the suffering experience has an impact in the psychopathological symptoms worsening. The morbid psychological profile of the studied patients? is characterized by a sociorelational, psychological, and obsessive-compulsive simptomathology. The present investigation results? point out the relevance of a combined study that includes the subjective suffering experience during breast cancer and the psychopathological symptoms variables?. This approach allows researchers to better understand the mental health state of women with breast cancer. In addition, the present study results bring important contributions to the scientific as well as to the clinical domains.

[es] La enfermedad del c?ncer de mama es un hecho impactante en la dimensi?n psicol?gica de las mujeres que la padecen. A pesar de que ya no est? asociada con una ?sentencia de muerte?, y que su curaci?n tampoco implica ya obligatoriamente la extirpaci?n de la mama, en la conciencia colectiva de las pacientes sigue asoci?ndose a una experiencia de adversidad frente a los tratamientos agresivos, m?s o menos prolongados, y a las correspondientes transformaciones, cambios y p?rdidas que de ellos se derivan. La presente investigaci?n tuvo como principal objetivo estudiar la experiencia subjetiva de sufrimiento en la enfermedad y la sintomatolog?a psicopatol?gica derivados del proceso de enfermedad en una muestra de mujeres con c?ncer de mama. Asimismo, como objetivos espec?ficos, observar cu?les son las dimensiones del sufrimiento m?s afetadas, y en qu? medida contribuyen las variables sociodemogr?ficas y cl?nicas a la variabilidad de la experiencia de sufrimiento. Tambi?n identificar la sintomatolog?a psicopatol?gica con mayor prevalencia en la muestra estudiada, as? como su variabilidad en funci?n de las variables cl?nicas y sociodemogr?ficas. Indagar si las variables de sufrimiento y sintomatolog?a psicol?gica est?n relacionadas. Investigar si el sufrimiento en la enfermedad conlleva el agravamiento de la severidad de la sintomatolog?a psicopatol?gica. Y, por ?ltimo, trazar un perfil psicol?gico de las pacientes con c?ncer de mama estudiadas, teniendo en cuenta las variables emp?ricas evaluadas. Los resultados obtenidos indican que la experiencia subjetiva de sufrimiento en la enfermedad de las pacientes evaluadas es caracterizada por un mayor sufrimiento sociorrelacional y psicol?gico. Los s?ntomas psicopatol?gicos derivados de la situaci?n de enfermedad con mayor prevalencia son la ansiedad y el Obsesi?n-compulsi?n. La escolaridad tiene efectos significativos quiere en la experiencia de sufrimiento en la enfermedad, quiere en la sintomatolog?a psicopatol?gica. Pero, no fueron encontrados efectos significativos de las variables cl?nicas en la experiencia subjetiva de sufrimiento en la enfermedad y en la sintomatolog?a psicopatol?gica. Se comprob? que la experiencia de sufrimiento en la enfermedad y la sintomatolog?a psicopatol?gica est?n relacionadas significativamente en todas las dimensiones. No obstante, no qued? demostrada la hip?tesis de que el sufrimiento influye en el agravamiento de la sintomatolog?a psicopatol?gica. El perfil de morbilidad psicol?gica de las pacientes observadas se caracteriza por un mayor sufrimiento sociorrelacional y psicol?gico, y una sintomatolog?a obsesiva-compulsiva y depresiva. Se concluye con el presente trabajo que el estudio conjunto de la experiencia subjetiva de sufrimiento en la enfermedad y sintomatolog?a psicopatol?gica permite conocer mejor la salud mental derivada de la experiencia de enfermedad de las mujeres con c?ncer de mama, y que los resultados obtenidos suponen importantes contribuciones a los ?mbitos cient?fico y cl?nico.