title: Cancer, poverty and human development: challenges for nursing care in oncology.
abstract: This is a reflection on poverty, human development and their interfaces with Oncology Nursing Care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  identify the prevailing types of cancer per region; point the challenges posed to nursing care; discuss the possibilities for Oncology Nursing actions in this context. In light of the demographic, epidemiologic and socio-cultural distribution of cancer in Brazil, a systematic articulation of the Oncology care, in situations of poverty and of low human development, represents a challenge for Nursing, as the necessary actions for prevention, early detection, treatment, and rehabilitation, range from low to high complexity. This conception opens the possibility of meeting this population's diverse demands made to the specialized services in Oncology, which are not restricted only to the antineoplastic treatment access, but include needs inherent to socio-economic-cultural factors.
authors.affiliation: Continuous Education, Cancer Hospital I, INCA, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria de Fátima
authors.initials: Mde F
authors.lastname: Batalha de Menezes
authors.forename: Teresa Caldas
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Camargo
authors.forename: Maria Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: dos Santos Guedes
authors.forename: Laisa F F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Lós de Alcântara
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000451:nursing; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D011203:Poverty