CANCER AS A DRIVE OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDERS IN ONCOLOGY PATIENTS IN BRAZIL

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1593762320099

• Palavras-chave: mental health, cancer, public health, quality of life, depression.

• Keywords: mental health, cancer, public health, quality of life, depression.

• Abstract:

  By having identified the high incidence rates of cancer in the world population, the psychosocial damages that affect patients in the stages of diagnosis and during the treatment of neoplasia, we seek to analyze the different psychological and social disorders that arise with the disease and can contribute to an aggravation in its evolution. This study has an exploratory, qualitative nature. It was carried out through bibliographical surveys. Thus, this work aims to become an important study tool for academics and health professionals, as it will enable them to obtain greater knowledge about psychosocial disorders in cancer patients in Brazil, allowing them to address the relationship between the consequences and treatments of cancer, issues that need be further explored to contribute to the scientific, social and public health spheres.