“…Furthermore, death, up to then never thought about, starts to haunt their lives as an inevitable and irreversible phenomenon. The stigma of cancer is that of an incurable disease, co nsidered by many as a waiting room for death, which generates intense feelings of sorrow (Beltrão, Vasconcelos, Pontes, & Albuquerque, 2007;Klassmann et al, 2008;Malta et al, 2008;Silva, Andrade, Barbosa, Hoffmann, & Macedo, 2009).…”