The Cancer Patient and their Experiences during Nursingcare: A Vision for the Future.

Abstract

Currently, a large number of people live with cancer of various types, assuming a certain stage of disease, with all the physical, emotional and socio-cultural repercussions that this pathology implies. This study explores the experiences of patients diagnosed with cancer, and the experience during nursing care; in such a way that it allows to understand the integrality of the disease process. It is a qualitative meta-study with a type of meta-data analysis and meta-synthesis, with 12 articles selected after exhaustive review of criteria of methodological rigor in credibility, auditability and transferability. The databases used were ISI Web of Knowledge, Pudmed and Scielo. The experience of cancer is a complex social and human phenomenon, which challenges the individual right to health of people in the health field, marked by high mortality and associated disability and established by social and psychological determinants in health. The experience of the patient with cancer is a complex dynamic that benefits from the qualitative exploration of its existence, where the analysis of the findings provided as a whole undoubtedly contributes to transcend and better understand the phenomenon presented by the different types of pathologies. .