Abstract

CASTRO, Carolina Heluy de  and  FUENTE VILCHEZ, Ángel Manuel de la. "What's happening here?": when the diagnosis of cancer is received outside the country of origin. Index Enferm [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.3, pp.220-223. ISSN 1699-5988.

Health professionals frequently do not realize the real magnitude of the humanized care. Here is the biographical account of a young American woman diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma while living in Spain, far away from her country of birth, friends and family environment. It was a story full of emotion and marked by overcoming. The narration shows that the behavior of professionals has a direct influence on the motivation of the patient to face the disease.

Keywords : Hodgkin's lymphoma; Cancer; Youth; Humanized care.