Humanização do tratamento oncológico - o custo da dor – necessidade de avanços humanos e tecnológicos no tratamento do câncer

Abstract

One of the most significant topics urge to be helped. However, this ordeal only starts bothering us, at the moment it occurs either by fate or by chance to our lives, no matter whether it happens on our own body, on our loved ones’ bodies or even on acquaintances’ bodies. Cancer treatment! A cancer diagnosis has two life events: before and after confirmation. A single sentence could be life-changing. "YOU HAVE CANCER". Listening to those harsh words, which are powerful enough to change our lives forever, puts us in a new rough and lasting life journey, affecting the human existence itself and compromising the most precious human treasure trove: The Life! Despite the state's obligation to regulate and monitor public health care with efficiency and effectiveness, something is going against the odds here, that is, why is the cancer still killing a large number of people in Brazil? what are the difficulties experienced by those cancer patients? when will there be a cancer treatment with kindness and respect to the human being? is the law being abided by? What kind of policies have been taken and developed to fulfill this fundamental right? Through full engagement and participation in the project ERO (Endodontia e Reabilitação Oral- da UFPB), bibliographical research and applied research, this monograph seeks for answers to all those issues described above.