title: [Experience of spouses of women with breast cancer: an integrative literature review].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To gather, to characterize, to analyze, to synthesize and to integrate primary studies that addressed the experiences of spouses / husbands / partners of women with breast cancer, presenting the current state of knowledge.
  
  
  METHODS
  Integrative literature review carried out in the databases of VHL, PubMed, CINHAL e SciELO.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The sample consisted of eight studies published between 2000-2012, which pointed to the experiences of the involvement and the care of the husbands towards their ill wives.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study highlights the need for attention and assistance to those spouses, as well as guidance and education to exercise the care the same way as the health staff has done with women. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of further studies in order to deepen the knowledge on this topic, and thus, improve the care with better scientific basis.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rhyquelle Rhibna
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Neris
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Anna Cláudia Yokoyama Dos
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Anjos
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms; D005192:Family Health; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*