DEDICATÓRIAAos meus pais, Conceição e Sebastião, por todo carinho, apoio e confiança que depositaram em mim e por me ensinarem a batalhar pelos meus sonhos.Dedico este trabalho ao meu namorado, Johnny, por todo amor, dedicação e compreensão, principalmente nos momentos difíceis. À minha Tia Aguiar e à minha Avó Geralda, por todo incentivo aos meus estudos, desde a graduação.Vocês me ajudaram a transformar este sonho em realidade. Descritores: Qualidade de vida; Neoplasias urológicas; Antropologia Médica; Cultura; Pesquisa qualitativa; Enfermagem oncológica. ABSTRACT NERIS, R.R. Quality of life from the perspective of urologic cancer survivors: qualitative study. 2018. 134p. Master's Thesis -University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Ribeirão Preto, 2018.The diagnosis of urologic cancer causes profound consequences in the life of patients. Although they are considered tumors with good responses to therapy, their diagnosis is not free from suffering and this interferes in their quality of life. The objective of this study was to analyze the meanings attributed to QOL for urologic cancer survivors in the medical anthropology approach. To support this understanding, we chose the theoretical framework of Medical Anthropology and the narrative method. After ethical approval, data collection began. Twelve participants diagnosed with urologic cancer were included in a therapeutic follow-up at a public hospital in the interior of São Paulo. Data collection took place from November 2016 to November 2017, through recorded semi-structured interviews and direct observation, carried out at the participants' homes and in the premises of the health institution. Based on the interviews, the narratives were constructed according to the experience-centered model, using the explanatory models employed by the participants. The analysis of the narrative data was executed occurred according to the thematic and inductive analysis, where these were integrated into three thematic narrative syntheses, corresponding to the units of meaning. The first synthesis, The path of urologic cancer: discovering oneself as a survivor, highlighted the search process to identify the abnormality in the body. The reaction to the diagnosis was of surprise and fear when faced with a disease culturally associated with death. In their cultural model, however, in the face of a serious illness, adherence to the proposed medical treatments is necessary, even if it entails a burden of suffering. The second narrative synthesis, What I was and what I am today: limitations in the body and in life, describes the complications caused by the attempt to eliminate cancer from the body through the therapies, causing suffering of the physical and social body, sadness and low self-esteem. Thus, this synthesis presented liminality as a meaning because, after the illness, the survivors assume another identity, which implies living with a new normality in life. In the third synthesis, Quality of life: surviving with harmony, in view of the liminality process...