| Abstract | | Background With the improvement of survival in cancer patients psychosocial and quality of life issues are gaining in importance. Psychological distress is a term used in describing number of psychological reactions which appear in context of coping with cancer. Beside physical sequelae of illness and its treatment self-perception of body can change, patients may face changes in sexuality and fertility which are especially prominent in certain cancer types.In addition, changes in partnership, family and other social relations may appear. With difficulties in occupational rehabilitation social and existential safety may be compromised. All those issues together may markedly lower cancer patient’s quality of life even years after completed treatment.
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