[Radiotherapy: perception of women with uterine-cervical cancer]

This is a qualitiative study that aimed to know the perception of women with uterine-cervical cancer on the radiotherapy, describing the physical and daily alterations they suffered and evidencing the their coping to face these adversities and their expectations about the treatment. 20 women in a specialized hospital had been interviewed, located in the city of Teresina-PI. The results showed that they perceive the radiotherapy as a good treatment, although the fear ahead of the stranger and the limitations in the daily one, had to the side-effects, that are faced with support in the religious and the social-familiar scope, increasing the cure expectation. The importance of the orientation to these women for the multiprofessional team showed, especially the Nurse, in all the phases of the treatment.