title: [Life experiences of elderly with cancer pain: the existential comprehensive approach].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Understanding the experiences of elderly with cancer pain.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative research based on Heidegger's phenomenology. 12 elderly cancer patients from a city in northwest Paraná were interviewed from November 2013 to February 2014.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Analysis performed by vague, median and interpretive understanding which resulted in two ontological themes: Cancer pain: unveiling the imprisonment and impositions experienced by the elderly, and Unveiling the anguish of living with cancer pain; it revealed not only how the elderly experience pain in their daily lives, but also how hard it is to live with its particularities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cancer pain has biopsychosocial repercussions for the elderly, generating changes in their existence in the world, requiring holistic and authentic care.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Kesley de Oliveira
authors.initials: Kde O
authors.lastname: Reticena
authors.affiliation: Nursing Departament, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Margrid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beuter
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Catarina Aparecida
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Sales
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005086:Existentialism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*