BEGINNING BRACHYTHERAPY PATIENTS: A HUMANIZED MULTI-PROFESSIONAL PROPOSAL FOR A BETTER TREATMENT ADHERENCE

Summary: The cervix cancer is the third most frequent female cancer in the world. In many developing countries it takes the first place in global incidence (SALVAJOLI; ET ALL, 2013). The cancer diagnosis and all the process of the disease are experienced by the cancer patient and their family as a moment of intense anguish, suffering, and anxiety (VENÂNCIO, 2004) . People generally have a very limited knowledge about the treatments related to cancer. At most of the times, the acquired knowledge was through experience with other patients or through the media, leading to an information that can often be incorrect, out of date and dramatized (LOURENÇO; COSTA, 2000) Among the therapeutic possibilities of Cervix cancer. We have the Brachytherapy that has been widely used in the treatment of malignant tumors, due the characteristic that discharge a high dose of radiation at the target volume (SALVAJOLI, SOUHAMI E FARIA, 2013). Through the assistance performed by the nursing and Psychology team. There was a need for a proposal of multi-professional action, supportive and humanized in approaching patients that start radiotherapy treatment, in the brachytherapy modality, being the main intention the orientation and demystification of the proposed treatment.