Feelings of oncologic patients: an existential understanding of the anguish based on Heidegger

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Objective: this study aims to correlate the feelings of the client with cancer mainly highlighting the anguish in a perspective Heideggerian existentialist. Methods: a descriptive study, qualitative, the type bibliography. To review, it took a search in books and in the database of the Scientific Electronic Library Online, Literature Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences, Virtual Health Library, and Google Scholar, using the terms: oncology nursing, cancer, anxiety, Heidegger. Twelve articles were selected considering the cut time of the last twelve years and the inclusion of subjective approaches. The Heideggerian approach subsidized understanding of issues of subjectivity, bringing contributions to a humanized intervention. Results: the cancer is a disease that refers the man to get in touch with their own finitude, so the person with cancer experiences a feeling of anguish, so that client has a need for assistance not just in physical but also emotional. The sense of anguish allows a man to the rescue of daily living, to suit the whole, and that feeling emerges when the man realizes that it is finite. Conclusion: it is crucial to understanding this type of feeling for nursing, to consider the being within their individualities, which will directly reflect the quality of its assistance. Descriptors:   oncologic nursing; emotions; stress psychological; anxiety; existentialism.