In recent decades, a significant prognostic improvement in people with cancer has been verified, thus emerging as an important issue the problem set of cancer survivors. Although this concept is integrated in modern oncology literature, we found no consensus about its definition. Some authors emphasized a biomedical approach, using objective data, like the number of surviving years. Others included other perspectives related to individual characteristics and disease trajectory. From a qualitative point of view, more than longevity, we must include an evaluation of the person’s disease based on its implications to personal, familiar, and social life. Understanding how cancer survivors deal with the impact of the disease and their transformations is relevant for all health professionals, in order to promote a better quality of survival.
Chancre; Quality of life; Health promotion
