Marisa Cordella • Aldo Poiani

2014

Psychological, Communicative,
and Social Dimensions

Today, when many diseases seem to be on the retreat, thanks to better education, hygiene, improved living standards and medical treatments, cancer still remains a serious problem around the world. It is often the case that a cancer diagnosis is received with great apprehension by patients and family, almost as if it was the closest medical equivalent to a death sentence.