Zahra Esfandiari Dolabid - m.a of psychology Department of Education, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University,Isfahan, Iran
Azadeh Jolaei - Associate Professor of shahid beheshti university. Tehran, Iran

The present study was conducted aiming to compare public health and body image among breast cancer patients with breast evacuation, breast keeping and normal women in Tehran. The method of the present study, due to the lack of interference to alter the research variables, was causal comparative. The statistical population included all women with breast cancer and normal women in the city of Tehran. From these people in each group 80 individuals were selected through available sampling from clients of medical centers and special hospitals in Tehran during October 2012 to December 2013. The applied instruments were the questionnaires of public health, body image, and marital satisfaction. The achieved data were analyzed via one-way ANOVA and Tukey test by SPSS software. The results of the analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of body image and public health in three groups (women with cancer who evacuated their breast, those who didn t and normalones)(p<0.01). Taking the findings of the study, the women with breast cancer suffer from psychological problems besides physical problems, the main reason whereof is the very physical problems. Therefore these kinds of problems should be attended besides physical treatments.

public health, body image, breast cancer