2019-09-172019-09-172016LIMA, Laís do Espirito Santo. Juntos resistimos, separados caímos: Vivências de familiares cuidadores de pacientes oncológicos em cuidados paliativos. Orientadora: Esleane Vilela Vasconcelos. 2016. 86 f. Trabalho de Curso (Bacharelado em Enfermagem) - Faculdade de Enfermagem, Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, 2016. Disponível em: http://bdm.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/prefix/2065. Acesso em:.http://bdm.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/prefix/2065Introduction: Cancer, despite all the advances in its therapy, still as a hard and obscure process to be lived through. The association to obscureness in its process is mainly driven from the popular believes in the difficultness of cancer management. In the familiar aspects, cancer generates a set of changes and dilemmas, of which, facing the impossibility of cure, demands a close parent to the take care and handle the daily needs and provide comfort for the clinical manifestations of the disease. Thus, its essential to know of the caregiver’s reality to provide adequate assistance, information, aids to assist the coping of life imminent terminality, and palliative care information. Objectives: Describe the experience of family-caregivers of patients in the oncological patients in a palliative care nursery and analyze the implication to the nurse’s care. Methods: A qualitative study with descriptive approach in the palliative care clinic in the reference hospital for oncologic treatment in the state’s public healthcare system. Data was collect through a semi-structured interview and processed through to a discursive textual analyzes. Results and Discussion: Data, through analyzes was categorized in three thematic units: “Goodbye blue sky: Life terminality, cancer and palliative care”, approaching the cancer impact and migration to the palliative care unit and suggesting possible coping aids; “Breath in the air: challenges faced by the familycaregivers”, concerning the caregiver selection, privations and financial difficulties; “Louder than words: experiences that marked the family caregivers of oncological patients”, emphasizing the diagnose impact and oncological pain as the most significant experience in the caregiver’s life. Conclusion: It is essential to listen, give voice and know the history of the family-caregivers for the planning and promotion of nurse’s assistance satisfactorilyAcesso AbertoCâncerCuidados paliativosFamíliaCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEMTrabalho de Curso - Graduação - Monografia