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Emotions
Diseases
Health Care
Social Psychology
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Abstract
The aim was to identify the social representations about cancer of patients undergoing cancer treatment. This is an exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative approach with data that used the research grounds following assumptions of the proposed Theory of Social Representations. The research had a total of 92 patients of various cancer diagnoses during chemotherapy treatment. Data were collected through individual interviews, using a semi-structured questionnaire where the patient had to enumerate the first 5 words that came to their mind from the most important to the least important. Among the words evoked, the ones that were repeated the most were fear, death and treatment, sadness and healing. Evidencing, therefore, the fear that the patient feels in the face of cancer. In the fifth line of words, the most evoked terms were healing, faith, God, hope. At the beginning of the treatment, the patient is afraid of a disease that still has an important psychosocial impact on his daily life. Oncological therapy performed with quality and efficiency, by qualified professionals who assist the patient in all its dimensions, who know parts of their feelings during treatment, can help to reduce suffering and reduce the physical and psychological impacts on the patient.
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