Psychosocial factors in women' cancer disease adaptation

The cancer disease involves the patient not only as an individual, but also as a member of a relationship system, both informal (family, friends) and formal (health services). The patient’s ability to cope with disease depends on different medical, psychological, social and psychosocial factors. This research investigates how psychosocial factors of cancer disease may influence adaptation to the illness, according to the latest studies, and suggesting that well-being in founded on optimal relationship between subject and context. The results show that the cancer disease is a family-disease. Its effects involve all the family system, sometimes making it stronger, sometimes breaking it. The cancer patients feel that people think of them as someone facing sure death, and so they highlighted their isolation. It seems that psychosocial factors of cancer disease may influence adaptation to the illness.