The risks of imposed optimism when faced with a cancer diagnosis: "It makes it difficult to ask for help and can lead to greater isolation". "He has cancer".
They are the two words that this year some 286,664 people in Spain will hear, according to estimates by the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology. Fear, anxiety, nervousness, sadness, irritability... are part of the repertoire of sensations among the people who are going to face the entire process. Added to the physical and mental aspects is the social requirement: smiling in front of the gallery, nothing happens here.