The Social Repercussions of Cancer on Patients' Families A Social Field Study in Mosul City

Abstract

This paper aims at studying conditions of cancer affected patients' families, and defining the psychological, economic and healthy effects on the patient and his family. The research's sample was on purpose and regulated. It focus on studying nine individual cases in Mosul, The researcher principally depend upon interview in collecting data and information.The results of the investigation showed that there were some patients, who infected with cancer, suffered from psychological defeat, compulsory obsession, anxiety, tension, and disturbance. Moreover, they are also suffered from high cost of treatment, chemical and nuclear medicines and its scarcity in hospitals. on the other hand, the disease created a kind of solidarity, and social cohesion among the patient's family, and led to support the patient healthily, psychologically and socially.