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Transcending Breast Cancer, Transcending Death: A Taiwanese Population

Lyren Chiu, RN; PhD

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

This study explores transcendence as a lived experience through in-depth, face-to-face interviews of 15 Taiwanese women with breast cancer. A phenomenological research method and Leininger’s culture care theory were employed to guide the study. Four themes emerged as characteristic of the current life worlds of the study participants. The four themes are giving meaning to suffering, liberating a clinging nature, opening to life and death, and healing with compassion. The findings reveal that the essential structure of transcendence is the capacity of a person to give meaning to suffering, liberate self from a clinging nature, open self to life and death, and heal self with compassion.

Key Words: breast cancer • Leininger • phenomenological research • transcendence

Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1, 64-72 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/08943180022107302
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