Psico-Oncologia: um estudo com pacientes após o término do tratamento oncológico / Psycho-Oncology: a study of patients after completion of cancer treatment

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

29/11/2011

RESUMO

Cancer is considered a public health problem. Many people are affected by this illness and there is a tendency for its increasing. However, parallel to the large proportions of cancer incidence, there is the increasing number of people who reach success on cancer treatment. This causes the emergence of a new group: the cancer survivors. We understand a cancer survivor as the patient that hasnt been treated for five years and has no evidence of the disease. The general objective of this research is to discuss the emotional aspects of this group of patients. The sample is constituted by cancer survivors from a public hospital in the city of Aracaju. The data was organized through a semi-structured interview guide that had been previously elaborated. The data was analyzed on a qualitative way, using the content analysis technique. Thus, this research shows that surviving cancer is a complex experience, and it is connected to the way each patient confronts and get adapted to the cure process. Appropriated cure conditions constitute a challenge to survivors once the possibility of the disease return has to be analyzed. The survivor needs to succeed on elaborating the past experience and live with the uncertainty of the future. This study also emphasizes that it is not just a matter of getting the patient cured, but also providing means of resuming to his/her life, and reintegrating him/her into the social environment. In this context, the health care team should include in their treatment plans, actions that goes beyond the clinical aspects of the disease, offering emotional and social support, promoting the improvement of coping skills to deal with their new condition and to get rid of the past, helping survivors to live with the duality inherent in life

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cura (aspectos psicológicos) healing (psychological aspects) psico-oncologia psycho-oncology sobreviventes survivors

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