For over twenty years, Jimmie C. Holland has been a pioneer in the study of psychological problems that affect both cancer patients and their relatives, of which she says the "real experts" in the disease. In The Human Side of Cancer, Holland shares his long apprenticeship on how to cope with the disease and how to help cope with feelings of anxiety and uncertainty about the journey through cancer. It is a therapeutic guide, practical and realistic, exploring the spectrum of emotions experienced by the sick and their relatives and friends from the time of diagnosis and often long and painful treatment of the disease, to 'after' cancer. The starting point of the book is that there are many ways to cope with the disease and supportive therapy as many people who have it. For this reason, the authors offer a wide range of psychological and physical strategies, both traditional and alternative, to fight depression, guilt, fear of pain and surgery, or suffering the physical consequences of cancer patients both as which accompany them. This book is intended for cancer patients and those suffering from the disease in an indirect way: family, friends and colleagues of the patient.