PHYSIOTHERAPEUTIC CONDUCTS AIMED AT PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY HEART CANCER

Abstract

Cancer is a pathology, whose main characteristics are the proliferation of cells in organs and tissues, regardless of the region where the tumor appeared. To this end, this article's theme is: Physiotherapeutic procedures aimed at patients with primary heart cancer. The general objective was to describe the physiotherapeutic procedures to be adopted in patients affected by heart cancer. It is a literature review, qualitative in nature, based on studies based on websites such as LILACS, Scielo, Medline/pubmed, BIREME and Google Scholar. In this sense, the study pointed out that the role of the Physiotherapist, oncological physiotherapy faces several specific challenges due to the complexity and particularities of cancer patients but is of great importance in the lives of these patients. Its role ranges from diagnosis to the most serious phases of the disease, based on measures to alleviate the pain caused by the disease. In this sense, it is emphasized that physiotherapy professionals need to have knowledge about the harm caused by cancer, treatment possibilities and possible approaches to be adopted, however, more studies on Heart Cancer are necessary, as no recent articles published.