Cancer Patient Acceptance of Advanced Disease

The study focuses on investigating cancer patient's ways of adjustment to advanced disease. Results indicated the ways that cancer patients adjusted to advanced cancer disease: 23.7 % of patients from the group "Living Here and Now" had accepted their life with cancer and possible death, and had found meaning in it; 18.4 % of patients from the group labeled "Negotiators" were convinced that their disease is curable or can be controlled; 18.4 % of patients from the group "Waiting for Recovery" believed that their disease could be treated and they denied the threat of disease to themselves; 7.9 % of patients, from the group "Waiting for a Miracle" perceived their disease as threatening but believed in a miracle and recovery; 31.6 % of patients, from the group "Waiting for Death" believed that their disease indicated a painful and imminent death.