Abstract

The attitude of cancer patients to treatment is a special kind of activity for overcoming the disease and its consequences. The characteristics of the attitude of cancer patients to treatment are considered: the patient’s awareness and need for information about the disease and treatment, relations with a physician in the course of treatment, emotional reactions to the disease and the need for treatment. Groups of patients with melanoma, soft tissue sarcoma and breast cancer patients with different severity of attitude to treatment were singled out. The connection between the significance of the relationship to treatment in these groups of patients with the types of attitude towards the disease and indices of viability is showed.

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