Identify the psychological and spiritual components of loss which may result from the experience of cancer and critically discuss approaches to support a patient through this experience. Once a patient has been diagnosed with cancer, he or she will experience many different feelings. One of those feelings is that of loss. Loss has many different variances. Cancer patients can feel physical loss but they can also experience psychological, social and spiritual loss as a result …showed first 75 words of 798 total…

…showed last 75 words of 798 total…of them. Patients although need their own time to come to terms with their disease, also require support and advice at various points throughout their cancer journey. Bloom.J(1982), states, “ When diagnosed with cancer, the need for social support increases to help the patient address the fears and ambiguities of the situation.” It has been suggested by Suominem.T et al (1995) that family, friends, nurses, doctors and other staff care for the patients’ social support.