title: Missed Opportunity: Spirituality as a Bridge to Resilience in Latinos with Cancer.
abstract: Going through adverse life events can help a person learn how to cope with life's challenges, overcome them, learn from the adverse experiences, grow, and be positively transformed by them. Spirituality is a resource that supports adaptation and resilience to improve quality of life in patients with cancer or other chronic illnesses. For Latinos, spirituality is an important core cultural value. As such, it is crucial to pay close attention to how cultural values play a role in health-related concerns when caring for Latino cancer patients, and to how spirituality, being an important aspect of Latino culture, influences how Latinos adjust and cope with cancer. Understanding how to facilitate resilience in the face of potentially negative life events, such as cancer, can not only help Latino cancer patients in active treatment, but can also impact effectiveness of managing and coping with the consequences of cancer during survivorship.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 641 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10022, USA. hunterhm@mskcc.org.
authors.forename: Migda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hunter-Hernández
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 641 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10022, USA.
authors.forename: Rosario
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Costas-Muñíz
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 641 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10022, USA.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gany
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D029181:Spirituality
keywords: Cancer; Latinos; Resilience; Spirituality