Cancer, with its considerable physical symptoms, social, mental, and spiritual burdens, represents a major stressor to both child and adult patients and their caregivers and families. In response to such stress, religious coping is one of the most frequently used coping methods in patients and their families. Herein, we discuss status of articles related to cancer and religious coping published in the last 40 years to attract attention to the importance of religious coping in patients with cancer.Religion and spirituality are completely different concepts. Religion