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Abstract

Palliative care through a holistic and multidisciplinary vision allows you to define a care plan centered on the patient, by integrating their narrative. Thus, narrative medicine is a therapeutic strategy that can change the dominant problematic stories, by enabling the construction of a new narrative and allowing a positive influence on the patient's entire therapeutic process. The clinical case refers to a patient with advanced breast cancer, followed by the home palliative care team, which required a narrative medicine approach, in the sense of reconstructing the image that neoplasia affected her life (with a perspective of suffering, resignation and frustration in the face of illness). Applied to the perceived stress and subjective happiness scale. A favorable response was obtained, with the deconstruction of a life passage that marked her reality, allowing the suffering, although present, to be experienced with acceptance and serenity, thus improving the quality of life of this patient.