title: [Spirituality and cancer].
abstract: According to recent studies, the significance of spirituality in patients coping with cancer has been evidently underestimated. Fox example, an interrelationship between spirituality and quality of life and between spirituality and mental comorbidity was observed. It is at least assumed that there is a connection to the progression of a disease. Although historical reservations make the integration of spirituality into medicine difficult, needs assessments and clinical studies provide grounds for a reorientation in modern oncology.
authors.affiliation: Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Würzburg. csef_h@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Csef
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hefner
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D029221:Faith Healing; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D029181:Spirituality; D016019:Survival Analysis