Recent advancement in detection and treatment of many types of malignant tumors lead to increase in the number of long-term cancer survivors (Bray et al., 2008;Khan et al., 2008). Traditionally, the cancer survivorship divided into three seasons including acute, extended, and permanent. However, today this term is extended and includes more seasons (Miller et al., 2008). The global burden of five year survival for cancer is reported as 28.8 million people in 2008 (Bray et al., 2008) and this number continue to increase each year (Siegel et al., 2012). By the way, because of delay in diagnosis of malignant tumors, the results of some studies reported that the overall survival rate for Iranian cancer patients is relatively poor (Rezaianzadeh et al., 2009;Sadjadi et al., 2009;Rezaianzadeh et al., 2012). But, it should be noted that there is no any valid statistic about the number of cancer survivors in Iran.The results of one systematic review showed that cancer survivors experience many problems such as physical, social, psychological, cognitive and sexual difficulties (Valdivieso et al., 2012). So, cancer survivors displayed lower levels of health and more burdens

It is necessary that nursing managers inform nurses about protocols for reporting all such cases in order to collect information, and based on a clear procedure, actively pursue reported cases and take the necessary measures to prevent violence against nurses.

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