[Relations with cancer patients].

A patient suffering from cancer expects to be cured by surgery, irradiation or chemotherapy. Despite of great progress in treating malignant tumours a great deal of these patients come to death due to their disease. This fact is known to the patients. Therefore, their personal attitude is often characterised by anxiety, hopelessness and impairement of their ability to communicate. Surgeons should know this and pay more attention to the special psychic situation of their tumour patients.