title: [Relationship between spirituality and cancer: patient's perspective].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to understand the relationship between spirituality and cancer under cancer patients' perspective.
  
  
  METHODS
  qualitative study, with the participating of fourteen cancer patients under chemotherapy treatment and analyzed according to inductive thematic content analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  reports were organized into three categories: cancer diagnosis, faith for coping to the cancer, the search for cancer cure. It was understood that cancer patients search spirituality as a way to cope with the disease, aiming to minimize their suffering or obtaining a higher hope of cure with treatment. FINAL CONSIDERATION: the central theme "cancer frightens and spirituality renews" shows the importance of recognizing spirituality as a coping strategy in planning care to cancer patients.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Geral, Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, SP. giguerrero@usp.br
authors.forename: Giselle Patrícia
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Guerrero
authors.forename: Márcia Maria Fontão
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Zago
authors.forename: Namie Okino
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Sawada
authors.forename: Maria Helena
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Pinto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D029181:Spirituality; D055815:Young Adult