In this fast moving technological era, human beings forget to take care of their
health. Physical and mental health is under threat. As part of that people suffer from severe
illnesses. Cancer is a predominant psycho-neurological condition in present day. Cancer
affects human being's life in multi dimensional modes including psychological, physical,
medical, social and economical. Efforts taken by the medical and psychological
professionals to help cancer patients and survivors threw much hope. Many studies are also
been conducted to explore the personality and behavioural aspects of cancer patients and
how they influence the social elements such as family and society.
Diagnosing a disease such as one that may generally perceived as terminal in nature like cancer
creates much thoughts and feelings in a man's mind. Majority of these thoughts are subjective and
more specifically negative. These negative thought worsen the disease condition since the
state of mind has an immediate and direct effect on our state of body.
There has been much debate about the reason behind cancer, whether it is a life style disease or
a genetic one. Evidence proves cancer as a genetic disease as well as a life style
disease; to certain extend that as precipitating factors. One of the studies revealed that cancer
(particularly, mouth, pharynx and larynx) is a life style
disease which had a significant relationship with cigarette smoking (Moore, 1971),