When trouble not only knocks on the door, but takes up residence there, people fall into despair and lose strength. It’s especially scary if a loved one is suffering from an illness. There are no words that can convey the incredible experiences of the unfortunate. So in the case of cancer, you have to choose: fight or give up. Here you should work on strengthening your mental strength. Many people are helped by praying to the All-Tsarina against cancer. Let's talk about her.
Does it help everyone?
A few words about critics who claim that no soul helps the body. Let's not argue with them. This may seem strange to some, but the controversy in this case makes no sense. These issues of war and peace can be discussed by the whole nation, and when a person is faced with an illness, only he has the right to decide what to believe and how to act. Yes, loving people can also advise and support. The rest doesn't matter. So it turns out that cancer gets some people back on their feet, while for others it’s like hitting a wall. It is clear that everyone claims the only truth, defending their attitude to this means. And what’s most interesting is that they are all right in their own way. The simple fact is that the prayer to the Mother of God, the All-Tsarina, is neither a miracle cure. She is a text that requires enormous mental work. Surely everyone understands this. Prayer is not a panacea. She is the path to healing. And only those who believe can master the road.
Why prayer?
Even before turning to the Lord with a request, you need to comprehend your intention. Advising those in critical situations is a difficult matter. However, experience suggests that it is necessary to draw their attention to certain points. So, praying to the All-Tsarina against cancer helps absolutely everyone. Even non-believers begin to feel some relief. But it should be pronounced from the heart, not from the mind. That is, it is not necessary to read the texts provided. By the way, there are many of them. There is no need to get bogged down in words. They are not the ones helping. Prayer to the Mother of God of All Queens - the inspiration and call of your soul.
Is it really important in what form this sincere message will be sent? Confidence that the sufferer will be heard matters. And the rest are such little things that you shouldn’t pay attention to them. It is the prayer to the All-Tsaritsa against cancer that is used for the reason that it allows you to detach yourself from the bustle. Indeed, in a normal state, a person constantly carries all the causes of an illness with him. Only in a state of prayer does he move into another space where he can remove this burden and communicate with pure energies. That is why it is so useful to turn to the holy icon. This is the first step on the path to realizing a person’s other, Divine calling. And also - understanding the true cause of the disease.
Prayer text
We present here one of the versions of this appeal to the Mother of God. Just don’t consider it the most true. The one that will help is already in the soul of every sufferer.
Read the words and find your own that will help you cope with trouble. “Oh, most pure Mother of the Lord, All-Tsarina! Hear, I ask, my much-painful sigh before Your miraculous Icon. Look upon Your child who is suffering from an incurable illness. I fall before Your holy image with true faith! Just as a sick bird covers its chicks with its wing, so You cover me with Your healing omophorion! So that hope does not disappear from my sinful soul. Gloom and despair settled there. Let Divine light and hope shine there! Strengthen, O Queen of All, the faint-hearted me, comfort the weak. Give softening to a hardened heart! Grant healing with Your kindness, Most Merciful Queen of All! Bless the minds and hands of those who heal me. May the Lord fill them with wisdom and strength! Let them serve as an instrument of our Lord! Stretch forth Your hands filled with healing. May, with Your help, a miracle happen to those who glorify the Holy Life-Giving Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Amen!"
Where can I contact the All-Tsarina?
Most likely, this question worries those who do not have faith in their hearts. After all, the temple is located there, and not in buildings or structures. However, the prayer to the icon “The Queen of All” for cancer should be said at the face of the saint. It is clear that it will not help everyone the first time. The path of healing is difficult and thorny. Therefore, we should start with the icon. That is, go to church, talk to the Mother of God there. And buy her holy face home. He must be near the bedside of the sufferer. One glance at an icon is sometimes enough to feel an influx of strength.
How to help a loved one?
It is clear how difficult it is for a person who is struck by an illness to live. But his loved ones sometimes have it even worse. This is reasonable. After all, the strength of a loved one directly depends on their careful but constant support. Of course, they need to turn to the Lord. Constantly ask Him for health for your neighbor. In the temple you will definitely be advised to order it for cancer. It will be performed there. It is also advisable to ask the monastery for such help. There, people close to the Lord will sing the akathist, filling it with their wishes for a speedy recovery for your loved one.
for cancer
When in trouble, people try to grab onto little things, which are words. This is not the way to approach solving a problem.
Any illness is not a punishment, but only a task. The Lord gives it only to those who have the strength to cope with its resolution. You should thank the Almighty for appreciating him so highly. Since the disease is given, it means that the person has managed to achieve a lot in his life. The Lord opens new horizons for him. Your prayer will become strong when it is filled with love and gratitude to the Lord. He knows what you are capable of. Trust him completely.
How to look for help in the soul?
In addition to prayer, sometimes simple and ordinary things help to find health. For example, ask yourself how long has it been since you truly enjoyed the sound of birds chirping? You will say that this is stupidity. But no. The Lord created the sound of waves and the play of kittens so that man could enjoy them. What did you do with the valuable gifts? Don't you notice? Stop and talk to the Lord in your soul. An answer will be given to you. And, most likely, it will be concluded in the fact that the miracle is already in you, there, in the depths, which a person forgets about, striving to receive earthly blessings. Leave the fuss for one day at first. Life, believe me, will flow at the same speed. Only you yourself will find the right place in it. Then thank the Lord for his labors. Give Him a sign that you saw and appreciated His efforts. From this moment the path to healing can be counted.
Why does the Lord send a person illness?
And a few words about how it happened that the disease overtook a certain person. No, let everyone judge for themselves about the details and circumstances. The question is that we do not find the strength or time to delve into this issue, but we need to. Prayer for healing from cancer is powerful because it helps to understand the soul. The result will be a very frank conversation about the most intimate things. After all, everyone wants not only healing, but also a happy life. How can you come to it when you don’t know what exactly causes suffering in your soul? Prayerfully ask for help as you work to find all the answers. Well, recovery will come to those who understand the depth of the Lord’s love for his children. You just can’t lose hope and let despondency enter your soul!
The most powerful prayer for the health of a sick person is a prayer said with deep faith, sincerity and sincerity. Such prayer works even at a distance, often works real miracles, sometimes proving stronger than the most expensive medications.
It is allowed to read a prayer for the health of the sick both within the walls of the temple and at home, in front of the icons of saints. You can ask for health and healing from illness both for yourself and for your family and friends (parents, children, husband, wife, other relatives and friends). However, before turning to the saints with a request, you must make sure that the sick person was baptized in the church. Of course, nothing and no one forbids praying for the health of a person who has not been baptized, but in this case the effectiveness can be significantly reduced.
Not only the most powerful prayer text, but also a church prayer service for health can help a patient recover from his illness. It is pronounced by clergy within the limits of liturgical health at the prior request of the customer. You can order a prayer service daily, or for a month, or for 40 days. In any case, it significantly increases the chances of recovery for a person defeated by the disease.
Any prayer is a positive energy message that has great power and gives faith in healing and hope for a bright future. It allows you to convey a positive attitude to the patient, during which his health begins to gradually improve, and his illness gradually recedes.
Often the course of the disease worsens due to the patient’s lack of mental balance - one might say that the person is sick in spirit. Prayer for health, in this case, improves the mental state of the sick person, restores lost peace to him, and helps him cope with tormenting fears and doubts.
With words of prayer for the health of the sick, believers most often turn to the Lord himself, to the Most Holy Theotokos, to the Blessed Elder Matrona of Moscow and to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
The reason why people pray to the Almighty and the Mother of God for health is clear even without explanation: in the hierarchical ladder of the Higher Powers they occupy the highest positions. The fate of all life on Earth, including humanity, is concentrated in the hands of the Lord. The Most Holy Theotokos, who gave this sinful world a Savior, has always been the intercessor of the weak, covering them with her reliable maternal wing.
Believers turn their requests to Matronushka and Nicholas the Pleasant because these saints are among the most beloved and revered in Orthodox Christianity. Even during their earthly life, Blessed Matrona and the Wonderworker became famous for their gift of healing, and helped a considerable number of people find a miracle of healing. Evidence of this is thousands of stories recorded in church books and on Orthodox websites (Matrona of Moscow), preserved in ancient manuscripts, in Christian legends and traditions (Nikolai Ugodnik).
The most powerful Orthodox prayers for the health of the patient
To higher powers for healing
The peculiarity of this prayer is that it refers not to any specific representative of the Higher Powers, but to everyone: to the Lord himself, to the Mother of God, to all the saints and angels. That is why it is considered one of the most powerful prayers. If possible, it is better to read it within the walls of the temple. Instead of parentheses, it is necessary to mention the name of the patient who needs to be cured of the disease. The text is as follows:
To the Lord
Prayers asking for healing and health addressed to the Lord God should be read in front of the icon of the Savior, with lit candles. This can be done both in church and at home, if for some reason there is no opportunity to visit the temple yet.
First prayer the text of which is presented below can be read both for yourself and for your family or loved one. The phrases “God’s servant” can be replaced with “God’s servant,” and instead of parentheses, the name of the ill person can be given. Words:
Another prayer addressed to God, is also considered one of the most powerful. It asks for recovery. Strength can be increased many times over by ordering a magpie for health in the temple. Text:
Holy Mother of God
First prayer addressed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, gives good health. It is also permitted to read it both in church and at home, and it is obligatory to read it in front of the holy image of the Mother of God. You can say prayer words for yourself, for your family and friends. Text:
Prayer Rule second prayer for health addressed to the Mother of God, similar to the prayer rule of the first. To pronounce this text, a prerequisite is that the patient be baptized. It is advisable to read this sacred text in front of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow.”
Matrona of Moscow
You can ask Blessed Elder Matrona for health and healing with the help of a universal prayer known to every deeply religious person. Its text has already appeared on our website several times, but we will present it again:
Prayers to the Blessed Matrona must also be read before her face. But not in every church you can find the icon of Matronushka. But you can easily get out of the situation if you buy an icon with the image of the holy old woman for your home and begin to pray at home. Matrona usually does not refuse help to anyone, because she made a promise to help people even after her death.
To increase effectiveness, the Church recommends that before pronouncing it, surround yourself with good deeds: give alms, help everyone in need, make donations to the temple. Matrona of Moscow will definitely appreciate your mercy and generosity.
Nikolai Ugodnik
Those who want to get rid of illnesses and gain health pray to Nicholas the Wonderworker. The prayer is read before the image of the holy elder (both in the temple and at home). You are allowed to read the prayer text both for yourself and for your relatives and loved ones, substituting the name of the sick person instead of brackets. Text:
Important!
When turning to representatives of the Higher Powers about healing and health, one cannot refuse drug treatment and all necessary medical examinations. We must remember that Higher powers sometimes help us through other people. Therefore, saying prayers and medical treatment should go in parallel, complement each other, and not oppose.
The meaning of cancer from a doctor's point of view
Oncology is a special field of medicine, where both the high professional training of the doctor and his ability to communicate with a sick person are equally important. Violation of this unity can have a very sad effect on the fate of the patient.
Various types of errors and omissions in oncology usually do not appear immediately, as, for example, in acute surgical or therapeutic diseases, but only after some time, sometimes long, when eliminating them can be very difficult, and sometimes impossible. At the same time, the biological property of tumors to progress and people’s disbelief in a permanent cure for cancer to some extent mask a medical error, and sometimes, roughly speaking, they “write off” it.
Every disease has its own meaning. The Lord sends the disease, or rather, allows it, in the place, organ or system where the passion that affects the human soul is most manifested. Illness is then a medicine that prevents the further development of passion.
An oncological disease, especially a malignant one, from a religious point of view, has as its purpose “notifying” a person that he has a path to the Kingdom of Heaven, his life time has been calculated, measured, and the Lord has decided to recall the soul of this person to Himself in Eternity. It does not matter how much time passes from the moment of histological examination confirming the cancerous nature of the tumor until death: a month or fifteen years (against the background of surgery, radiation treatment and chemotherapy). It is important that a bell sounded from above, calling for repentance for the entire life lived. Why do we have the right to consider this a “notice”? Because there are many diseases that result in sudden death, when, due to exhaustion from the disease and its characteristics, a person is no longer able to resort to the Church Sacraments, and cannot meaningfully speak, see, hear, or analyze. Any Church Sacrament is based on the fact that a person who wants to begin it must be in a state of clear consciousness or slight deafening of consciousness, but self-analysis of the person must necessarily take place, otherwise it will be impossible to either express one’s thoughts or express everything that is the subject repentance.
Of course, modern surgery allows one to achieve good results: the survival rate of patients with malignant neoplasms with radical removal of tumors reaches 15 and 20 years. However, the age from the starting point to Eternity is no longer important; the very fact of “warning” is important. “Notification” does not imply slow dying from the disease sent; it is possible that a cure will occur (both religious and non-religious in nature).
Patient I., with stage III stomach cancer (T3 N0 M0) was warned about the need for surgical treatment. She rethought her life and made a vow to God that if she remained alive, she would devote the remaining time of her life to the Church. Soon, during a preoperative examination, doctors were surprised to discover the disappearance of the tumor. The patient subsequently took part in the restoration of sixteen Orthodox churches.
In the 80s of the 10th century, newspapers on the island of Cyprus circulated sensational news about the cure of stage IV cancer of an elderly man who prayed for the healing of St. Archangel Raphael. The healing took place within one night (story by a local resident of the island of Cyprus).
And here is one of the most striking examples of “notification” with a delay.
Patient M., the former head sister of one of the departments of TsMSCH-122, was bedridden for the second year due to destruction of the vertebrae due to metastases of a malignant neoplasm. Despite conversations with priests and constant communication with sisters of mercy, the patient was not predisposed to repentance, confession and communion. She began to express doubts about the existence of God and stated that she would not believe it until she personally verified the reality of the afterlife and communicated with the dead. Seeing such insolence towards God and the failure to achieve at least some understanding, the spiritual care of the patient was stopped.
About a month passed and the priest was urgently called by the patient herself. When he entered the room, he saw the face of a completely different person: the petrified insensibility and folds of pride, arrogance and disdain disappeared. The patient greedily absorbed every word spoken by the priest. When he tried to find out what happened, it turned out that on the night before the feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, the Lord took the sick soul to the afterlife and then returned it back. In the “other world” she communicated with relatives, some secrets were revealed to her regarding the future deaths of her loved ones and hospital staff (which was later justified). She was shown the importance of remembering the dead both through prayer and by offering food on the eve. She saw the doors of heaven and hell, the gatekeepers. But she was not even allowed close to the gates of heaven, since she did not know a single prayer. She was given a short prayer rule, which she had to do until death. After this, some of her requests were fulfilled, and she again ended up in the hospital.
In the morning, the department was alarmed by the patient’s cry: “Believe, people! God exists!". The alarmed medical staff tried to calm her down, but she constantly repeated this phrase and asked to write down the words of the prayers said to her by the gatekeepers of heaven. The patient tried to explain something, but those around her thought that it was either an overdose of medications or a reactive state against the background of a long-term oncological disease. Seeing that no one took her request seriously, she asked to call a clergyman. During a calm conversation with him, she told him what she saw and what she learned.
For some time after this event, the patient felt well and did not need the daily medications and painkillers she had previously taken. Four months later, in April 1996, she died as a deeply religious person who had repented of her sins, although not very church-going, but still in some way a church-going person. Before her death, she quite consciously took unction and received communion.
Psychology of a cancer patient. Religious and psychological aspects
Let's consider the psychology of cancer patients.
Recently, psychological problems in oncology have acquired new features due to advances in diagnosis and treatment. The emerging conditions for identifying diseases in the preclinical period and the possibility of a complete cure put on the agenda the need for a broad discussion of the problem of the psychology of a person who does not feel sick, but is forced to undergo treatment that involves a risk to life.
In the early stages, patients with clinical manifestations of cancer try to explain their feelings by random causes. They expect the pain to go away and try to treat it with home remedies. Patients either reject thoughts that arise about the possibility of cancer as unacceptable, or, accepting them, withdraw into themselves, anxiously awaiting further developments of events. This period of the disease is characterized by a tendency of patients to introspection and secrecy. A minority of patients quickly fall into a panic state and immediately consult a doctor. Most usually wait several months until new symptoms of the disease appear, which force them to see a doctor. Patients who are inattentive to themselves or, conversely, are afraid of a possible “terrible” diagnosis and avoid visiting a doctor, seek medical help under the influence of others.
After the first visit to the doctor, the psychological situation changes. The patient’s mood from this period largely depends on the impression the doctor made on him.
During this period, one can expect mainly two types of reactions to unfolding events. Some patients are prone to fright, panic and, when asked to be hospitalized, fall into a state of depression. Other patients who do not show outward signs of anxiety also need attention. Under the mask of external calm, people who are closed by nature may hide a severe mental reaction to the environment.
For non-believers, a diagnosis of cancer sounds like a bolt from the blue and, as a rule, becomes a real tragedy in life. Believers react differently, depending on how churched, strengthened, and prepared they are to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. A Christian, even from the cradle, strives to gain the Kingdom of Heaven through observance of God's commandments.
A person who has developed cancer can take one of three paths:
- riotous: take everything possible from the remaining time in life. As a rule, non-believers follow this path, because they believe that beyond the threshold of this life there is nothing, only non-existence.
- rational: the patient comes to the doctor, attempts a cure, believes the doctor, believes in his hands, professionalism, i.e., strives to help his body.
- spiritual: the patient perceives his illness precisely as a notice of the time of preparation for eternity, not as punishment, but as God’s mercy, as God’s warning about the coming eternity.
Spiritual, moral and deontological tasks of an oncologist in relation to patients
An oncologist has the following tasks in relation to patients:
1. Extend the patient’s active life time.
The doctor may ask the question: “What should I do if a person goes into all kinds of troubles, goes into chaos?” In response, the doctor can remember that he has been given blessed functions, and by prolonging the life of the patient, he gives him the opportunity to gain additional reserve of time for repentance and solving his life problems.
2. The second task of the oncologist is to bring healing to the patient, without forcing him to believe, but also without allowing the patient to go into superstition, mysticism, and not go down the path of rampant self-immolation.
The uncertainty of the etiology of malignant neoplasms gives rise to doubts among the population about the capabilities of medicine. Doctors cannot yet give a clear, unambiguous answer to the question asked by patients and their relatives about the origin of cancer and do not always have the opportunity in a conversation with them to illuminate the rather complex modern ideas about the etiology and pathogenesis of the disease. This situation gives rise to various guesses among the population and creates the basis for trust in the unscientific judgments of non-specialists and healers.
The creation of an atmosphere of mistrust is promoted, to a certain extent, by the publication in the scientific and general press of superficial judgments about the origin of tumors, and these judgments give many people unrealistic hopes of eliminating the disease in one “simple” way. At the same time, the “simplicity” of a theory gives rise to its understandability, and understandability for an unprepared person contributes to the emergence of conviction in its correctness.
The influence of this kind of publications, not to mention fictions that are completely far from science, is explained by a number of psychological characteristics of people. S. Camp, a prominent American psychologist, wrote: “...Science becomes more complex, specialized, and more difficult to understand for a non-specialist every day: As a result, it is difficult for an ordinary person to keep up with scientific discoveries. On the other hand, pseudoscientific myths allow the average person who believes in them to feel like they are in the midst of the modern flow, or to believe that they know something hidden from others, without forcing themselves to make special efforts to do so.”
That is why the first deontological task of oncologists, in relation not to an individual patient, but to society, is to refute emerging myths and legends. The most common idea is that there are “folk”, “foreign” and all other life-saving remedies for cancer. It should be noted that turning to healers is by no means the lot of poorly educated people. On the contrary, oddly enough, well-educated people who read a lot of diverse literature, where careless, incompetent publications about “new methods” of treating cancer appear from time to time, are especially persistent and persistent in their search for supposedly unknown original medical methods for treating this serious disease. Usually this is done not by the patients themselves, but by their relatives and friends. Not a day goes by without a writer, a journalist, a non-medical researcher, and sometimes even a doctor far removed from the problems of oncology coming to the doctor for advice about a patient who is not subject to special treatment methods. In this case, rumors are cited as arguments about one or two cases of healing of patients known to them, or about publication in the general press.
Talking on this topic and not having the means to treat a patient in an advanced stage of cancer and the opportunity to at least somewhat reassure his friends and relatives, doctors do not immediately and categorically reject the possibility of turning to so-called folk remedies or simply healers. Statements such as “there is nothing to do, why not try?”, “the patient is absolutely hopeless, what if a new treatment method will help him?”, only indicate the professional helplessness of the doctor and his lack of spirituality.
A doctor talking with the patient’s loved ones and relatives, and sometimes with the patient himself, is obliged to take a strong and irreconcilable position in relation to such “innovations.” Naturally, in order for the position to be strong and irreconcilable, it is necessary to know the degree of confirmation of the diagnosis in all its details and clearly understand the possibilities and ways of palliative and symptomatic treatment of cancer patients of clinical group IV. We must remember that in almost every cancer patient with an advanced form of the tumor, through palliative and symptomatic measures, it is possible to achieve remission, sometimes quite long, and, most importantly, alleviate his suffering. Moreover, in a number of cancer localizations, remissions often occur spontaneously, which can stimulate the success of completely nonspecific and even completely ineffective drugs and influences, which is also widely used by charlatans. Every oncologist can give examples of subjective and objective improvement in general condition and even the return of patients to work as a result of the use of palliative treatment methods.
The above considerations and facts leave no room for the doctor’s consent to transfer the patient into the hands of incompetent people, especially into the hands of charlatans, allegedly because he, the doctor, does not have the means to fulfill his medical duty. It is necessary to warn against these mistakes in every possible way also because such a recommendation, while harming the patient, also harms medicine, undermining its authority. Its consequence can be, and probably often happens, a completely curable patient with a malignant neoplasm who has learned about a case of an imaginary cure, which was in fact a normal remission, unrelated to the method used, refuses treatment and goes to the “doctors.”
S. Laborde in the book “Cancer” (1979) writes that a cancer patient who turns to a healer for help is a lost patient, since he misses precious time when he can still be cured. The author emphasizes how difficult it is to convince people that there are no secret cures and further writes: “Whether they like it or not, driven by an unconscious need to believe, they find themselves in a dilemma, the conclusion from which is inevitable:
- or there is a real discovery that will be able to cure a huge number of cancer patients, and those who keep it secret are committing a crime against humanity;
- or we are dealing with an impostor who criminally abuses people's trust. This is even more so without any justification, since we are talking about patients, who are especially easy to deceive and at whose expense it is unacceptable to profit.”
Thus, we repeat, the position of the oncologist in relation to unprofessional methods of influencing cancer patients should be firm and unshakable.
However, there are still cases when hype arises around various dubious proposals and the authors of these, so to speak, treatment methods, sometimes supported by the press, try to circumvent the laws. There is nothing more dangerous for others than active ignorance!
It is worth recalling the materials from the testing of the “methods” of cancer treatment according to Guman, Prodan, Kachugin, which caused a lot of noise 20 years ago, which few people remember today. These people claimed to have found radical ways to treat malignant tumors. Official control of their “methods” in a clinical setting in compliance with strict rules for clarifying the diagnosis and monitoring the effectiveness of the drugs showed that this time the discovery did not occur. However, the authors of the “new methods” did not give up immediately. They tried to explain the failure by the fact that during the test they were allowed to treat patients only with an advanced stage of the cancer process. However, they previously claimed that they were saving people almost on the verge of death. Naturally, if such an amazing effect is advertised, testing should be done by treating the same category of patients. In addition, for less common stages of cancer, modern oncology has reliable and effective means.
Self-proclaimed healers are trying to challenge the conclusions of qualified commissions with pseudoscientific statistical calculations, while a serious analysis shows that in a significant number of their “patients” the diagnosis was not confirmed by the morphological method - the only reliable evidence of cancer.
3. The doctor must be patient with the ignorance that patients and their relatives may show regarding the radicality and breadth of surgical intervention and the need for treatment.
In our time, no disease causes such horror and despair in people as cancer. Oncologists often observe severe emotional reactions to the disease with malignant neoplasms, psychologically associated with ideas about the incurability of these diseases.
There are patients who reluctantly and irregularly visit the clinic and avoid examination due to minor manifestations of the disease. They see no reason to be alarmed, and therefore do not follow the doctor’s orders. With such patients it is necessary to carry out persistent work, proving the validity of the examination and the inevitability of treatment, and sometimes disclose the seriousness of their situation, despite the absence of visible severe signs of illness.
The first contact with a doctor for patients has a strong emotional overtones. Patients harbor hope that their fears are in vain, and the disease can be cured with conventional medications. During an outpatient examination, the doctor tries to help the patient overcome emotional experiences.
The period of hospital stay of patients is usually associated with mental depression. Patients are worried that they are in an oncological institution and react sharply to the condition and fate of their neighbors in the ward. Personal contact between the doctor and the patient and the help of the priest are the key to a successful background for treatment. A favorable environment in the hospital is created by a well-coordinated, well-functioning team of doctors, nurses and nurses, and the presence of nurses. Even the smallest defects in the work of medical personnel are not hidden from the attention of patients - wary, acutely perceiving everything around them.
Poor information from patients about the nature of the disease is one of the serious reasons for their refusal of treatment. N. N. Blokhin (1977) wrote that a patient’s refusal to undergo an operation based on misinformation made for false deontological reasons negates the deontological principles that place the interests of the patient above all else.
B. M. Shubin and co-authors (1980) studied the most common reasons for refusal of operations in cancer patients. Thus, 39 patients had fear of the operation, 25 had fear of the consequences of the operation, 25 had no complaints and felt well, 26 had decided to try medicinal treatments, 14 had distrust of the doctors of the hospital, 14 had disbelief in the possibility of a cure. 5 patients.
Instructive details of the circumstances that caused patients to refuse or delay treatment were revealed. Among them: a too hasty and one-time offer of an operation by a doctor who is not sufficiently authoritative, in their opinion, disputes in the presence of the patient about the advisability of surgical treatment, the choice of a method without sufficient, from the patient’s point of view, examination, pressure from relatives, etc. Reasons for refusals described above are of particular importance for small tumors that do not give any noticeable clinical manifestations. In these cases, as a rule, active surgical treatment is necessary, although patients consider themselves practically healthy. Following the proposal of a treatment plan, the patient usually asks for time to think and consult with loved ones. Some patients, after the first conversation with a doctor, disappear from his field of vision and appear after some, often long, time with symptoms of an advanced disease. The doctor needs to be persistent, even to the point of actively visiting or calling the patient for a second conversation. The examination in the clinic should be as short as possible, not only due to the need to start treatment faster, but also from a purely psychological point of view. We must always remember that the doctor is dealing with a patient who has no symptoms of the disease and doubts the necessity of treatment. Without giving time for doubt, you need to place the patient in a hospital as quickly as possible. Is it permissible to disclose the diagnosis if there is persistent disagreement with the proposed examination and treatment? In such cases, it is customary to inform the patient that there is a suspicion of cancer and that a detailed examination is required. After hospitalization, a patient with an asymptomatic disease encounters a seriously ill patient, with complications from surgery and radiation therapy, the effects of which are often unfavorable. Therefore, the attending physician must explain that the department treats not only patients with malignant tumors, for whom treatment is complex and dangerous, but also those with benign, precancerous diseases. The patient should be helped to understand that the later treatment is started, the more difficult it is for the patient, and that it is better to start treatment before the oncological disease develops.
The patient should be told that in the initial stages, cancer can be asymptomatic, almost no different from the course of precancerous disease.
The first rule is to begin implementing the treatment plan as quickly as possible.. It is advisable to operate such patients as soon as possible after hospitalization. Patients should be advised not to discuss the details of the course of the disease, its treatment and outcomes with other patients, and not to bring up medical topics in their conversations.
Hospitalization in an oncological institution puts the patient on guard, but nevertheless, it is usually possible to convince him that he has a curable disease. This is the psychology of the patient - to believe in a successful outcome of the disease. The tendency of modern medicine to hospitalize patients in a specialized medical institution is developing and strengthening. Psychological losses are covered by maximum opportunities to receive the most qualified treatment.
Some patients feel worse after treatment than before treatment. They are haunted by the thought that they agreed to treatment in vain. After all, they did not consider themselves sick before treatment.
The doctor must keep this possibility in mind and provide for it.
So, the belief that cancer is incurable is the main source of fear, followed by other severe psychological changes.
S. B. Korzh described the following tragic incident.
A 35-year-old woman, after a gynecological examination, was sent for further examination to the oncology clinic. She believed that only cancer patients were sent to this facility, and so she told her friends that if the diagnosis was confirmed, she would commit suicide. At the dispensary, after an outpatient examination, the patient was offered hospitalization for treatment. They did not study the psychological state of this woman; they did not talk to her. She went home for 1-2 days to “settle the children” and disappeared. Only a month later her body was discovered in the river.
The medical task, as mentioned above, is to use every opportunity to shake this opinion. There are many ways to solve this problem, the most important of which is an individual conversation between the doctor and each cancer patient and his relatives.
The oncologist's responsibility for the patient's life
Often a priest is invited to a sick person too late. A patient, especially a non-believer, can react to the “tragic” news of his diagnosis in two ways: prepare for further adaptation to life after surgery (or without surgery), or commit suicide by ending his life on his own. Is an oncologist responsible for the fact that his patient committed suicide? Indirectly - yes. Why? Because the task of any doctor is to treat not only the body, but also to take care of the patient’s soul. The attending physician always has the opportunity, if he cannot cope with psychosocial disorders in his patient, to call a psychiatrist, a psychologist, at the same time he can call a priest who will help the patient to understand his illness in a slightly different way, to feel what the dying person has to do with Eternity Human.
A late appeal to a clergyman for help is fraught with deprivation of a person’s dying instructions and confession, which aggravates his fate in the other world. The doctor should remember that if the priest managed to forgive some of the sins of his patient, he will no longer be responsible for them after death, but if he does not have time, then the sins will remain with the soul, and in that world there is no longer repentance, and even if If the soul of the deceased really wanted to be freed from at least one sin - this is no longer possible.
Thus, the role of the doctor and sisters is to try to call the priest in time, when the patient’s consciousness is still clear, there is no cancer cachexia, so that the patient can confess and receive communion. Therefore, regardless of the desire of the doctor, the fate of the person’s soul, entrusted to him by God, also depends on him, whether it will end up in hell or heaven. The repentance of a person’s soul is hidden from our eyes; it is a great mystery. But at the moment of repentance to the priest or at the moment of preparation for the sacrament, enormous changes occur in the soul of a person. The Lord who knows the heart sees these changes in a person and can change his fate in eternity.
Of course, not only the doctor, but also the patient himself is responsible for where the patient’s soul ends up after death. If the doctor offered the patient the help of a priest, told him about life in the afterlife, then everything depends on the good will of the patient himself.
In our time, when atheistic prejudices have not been eliminated among the Russian population, such conversations with a patient may be unsafe for a doctor’s career. Therefore, it is better if a priest or sister of mercy who is outside the department’s staff speaks with the patient. However, the doctor's personality greatly influences the patient.
The mother of one of the parishioners of parish N. survived the blockade, had pronounced changes in the spine, the size of her pelvis did not allow her to give birth to a normal child, there was poor Rh compatibility with the fetus (Rhesus conflict), etc. She was told: “You will give birth, but nothing will happen.” no good will come of this.” But she answered decisively: “I will give birth.” Later, Professor S, quite well-known in the field of medicine, came to her room. He came up, sat on the bed, stroked her stomach and asked: “Are you reading Theotokos?” She looked at him, not expecting (these were years of persecution of the Church) to hear such a question from the professor’s lips, and did not answer anything. The professor continued as if nothing had happened: “If you read, everything will be fine, you and I will give birth, don’t worry, don’t listen to them,” he nodded his head towards the door, “they don’t understand anything.” To the surprise of everyone, she gave birth to a healthy son, without any physical or mental defects. The son grew up, received a higher education, and at the moment is the mother’s only support in her life and illnesses.
Here is an example when just a few words of prayerful strengthening from the lips of a doctor can give strength to the patient’s soul. And although he can now freely call a priest to himself, the first person he meets in the hospital is the sister and the doctor.
Cancer detection. How to deal with this and act correctly
One of the most difficult questions of a moral, deontological and bioethical nature in the work of an oncologist is when and how to inform the patient and his relatives about the incurability of the detected disease or its malignant nature, since everyone clearly understands that first there must be a radical operation, then a long treatment, and, in some cases, not recovery, but death.
On the one hand, the medical one, the doctor, sparing the patient’s psyche, tries not to voice an exact diagnosis, gradually preparing the patient for an adequate perception of the tragic message. On the other hand, the religious one, delay leads to the loss of time, which the patient could use to prepare for eternity, and this time is irretrievably lost.
The next feature of oncology that seriously affects the proper behavior of a doctor is the crippling nature of many types of treatment, which threatens each patient individually. This circumstance is aggravated by the fact that with proper preventive examinations and early detection of cancer, the disease can be detected in people of working age who consider themselves healthy.
Mutilation surgery (lobectomy, pneumonectomy) is proposed. The surprise of offering a major and undoubtedly dangerous operation to a person who considers himself healthy requires thorough and convincing argumentation to obtain his consent. We are faced with a sudden disruption of all the plans, affairs, aspirations, and interests of an actively living person. He is completely unprepared for a drastic change in his lifestyle.
It’s a different matter when the disease itself changed the conditions of existence. Prolonged temperature reaction, cough, poor sleep - all this develops gradually and the patient himself comes to the conclusion about the need for treatment, up to major surgery. But if there is no feeling of illness, people, experiencing fear of illness and serious surgery, tend to psychologically “disengage” themselves from misfortune. The doctor does not know how to convince, the patient refuses treatment or postpones it. As a result, valuable time is wasted.
In January 1975, patient F., 58 years old, felt the first, still small, signs of dysphagia. He hid this from his wife, doctor and daughter, but turned to a radiologist he knew. An X-ray examination suggested cancer of the cardia of the stomach and esophagus. There was a recommendation to go to hospital for examination and treatment. As often happens, the symptoms of dysphagia passed, and the patient, comparing his feelings and the not very persistent medical recommendation, decided to postpone further examination. At this time, the wife was preparing to defend her doctoral dissertation, and the daughter was finishing school. He was waiting for the completion of these important family events. The patient appeared in the clinic only in August, i.e., after 8 months. after the appearance of the first clinical signs of the disease. X-ray and endoscopically the diagnosis was confirmed, but thoracolaparotomy revealed tumor growth into the pancreas and metastases into the hilum of the spleen. A combined gastrectomy with resection of the pancreas and removal of the spleen was required. The loss of time led to further spread of the process and a poor prognosis.
There are no ready-made recipes for how to do this. Everything will depend on the doctor’s experience, intuition, strict adherence to the principles of deontology and churchliness, and the fate of each of his patients will depend on this.
So, the uncertainty of the etiology of oncological diseases, doubts of patients about the possibility of curability of cancer, the crippling nature of many types of treatment, threatening disability, and finally, true tragedies experienced by patients and people close to them - all this creates in any oncological institution, at every outpatient appointment with an oncologist a very special psychological atmosphere that places its own exceptional demands on the art of communication with the patient. This situation is aggravated by the fact that changes in the mental state of patients, reactions of fear, anger, etc. are manifestations of the disease itself, which the doctor must understand and try to relieve by all available means. The emergence of a conflict between cancer patients and a doctor is always evidence of doctors’ non-compliance with the requirements of deontology.
Conducting a conversation with cancer patients requires following certain rules. First of all, until the diagnosis is confirmed morphologically, there should be no statements about the essence of the disease either to relatives, or, especially, to the patient himself. Among patients referred for consultation to oncological institutions, the diagnosis of cancer is confirmed in no more than one in three.
It should be remembered that even if cancer is identified positively, this must be taken carefully.
Patient K. was diagnosed with cancer of the stomach and esophagus, undetermined form, in 1984. The doctor has made a prognosis of possible life of only 4-5 weeks. The patient did not receive any treatment, since death was expected in the near future.
1.5 months after staying in the hospital, an unexpected improvement began. The doctors again regarded this as a temporary phenomenon, but the sick daughter, seeing that her mother was stronger, took her home. After this, the patient lived for five and a half years in satisfactory condition until 1989. During this time, she managed to normalize relations with all her closest relatives, reconcile “with her neighbors and join the full life of a pensioner and grandmother.”
Another case. Patient N. was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was not operated on due to multiple tumor metastases. After the anointing of St. With oil in the church, the growth of the tumor stopped, the pain disappeared, the patient lived a full life for another 6 years and died of bronchial asthma.
The diagnosis of cancer, especially of visceral localizations, is difficult and almost always requires the use of special reliable research methods, and therefore every patient suspected of having a malignant tumor should be consulted by an oncologist and undergo a special additional examination. There should be no medical frivolity here, which could cost the patient his life.
At the same time, referral for further examination to an oncologist or to an oncological institution very often frightens patients and even gives rise to cancerophobia. Therefore, it is necessary not only to write out a referral, but also to explain to the patient that he is being sent to a highly qualified institution, where all the conditions have been created for a more accurate diagnosis, where not only cancer patients go. That, finally, there is a large group of precancerous diseases, which are also dealt with by oncologists, and without the advice of a specialist, this doctor cannot properly organize and treat the patient.
The oncologist is not the “first contact” doctor with the patient. It is extremely rare for a patient with a malignant tumor to immediately come to him. Usually he makes a long journey to the oncologist, having visited the head of the department, the surgeon of the clinic, etc. If the first conversation is incorrectly structured, when the doctor, suspecting the patient has cancer, refers him to the oncologist and, moreover, allows himself to speak out definitely, without having A proven diagnosis, but only a suspicion, results in a reaction in the form of fear. The undesirable consequences are twofold. Some patients, afraid of getting a more precise diagnosis, do not go to the oncologist for months, delaying the treatment of their illness.
Several years ago, while on a business trip to another city, one of the oncologists lived in a hotel. The administrator, having learned from the regular registration card about the guest’s profession, asked to talk with one of the employees. This relatively young woman is 8 months old. Before his arrival, she underwent the usual medical examination for people of her profession, and the doctor discovered diffuse mastopathy in her, gave a referral for further examination to an oncologist, but the extremely frightened woman did not go anywhere, fearing, as she said, a clarification of the diagnosis and surgery. None of the medical staff spoke to her or explained the success of treating the disease at this stage. Moreover, at that time, judging by the note in the referral, the doctor generally thought about the presence of a mixed form of mastopathy, and not about breast cancer.
When examining the patient after 8 months. After a preventive examination, the diagnosis of breast cancer was no longer in doubt, since there were skin symptoms. Taking into account the psychological alertness of the patient, as well as the fact that her fear is aimed at the fear of diagnosis and all her doubts must be immediately dispelled, and also bearing in mind that the regional lymphatic system, apparently, is not affected, she was directly told about the presence of a curable forms of breast cancer. I also had to explain the possible consequences of continuing to do nothing. She was reassured that the treatment consisted only of breast removal without radiation therapy and ovary removal, which was her greatest fear. Since the patient was convinced of the need for immediate treatment, she was hospitalized the next day and operated on 2 days later. For several years now, this woman has been living and working, forgetting all her previous fears.
The second form of undesirable reaction is the appearance of cancerophobia. Many patients think that if they were sent for consultation to an oncological institution, then they have cancer, but they are denied antitumor treatment due to the incurability of the disease.
N.A. Kraevsky described the tragic ending of the life of one such patient.
She was sent for examination to an oncological institution with suspected malignant neoplasm. The suspicion turned out to be unfounded, and the absence of cancer was proven by modern and completely reliable research methods. Not believing in the truth of the successful diagnosis, the patient began to seek consultation from different specialists, but everywhere she received the same, absolutely correct answer. The clinic, which at that time was headed by N.A. Kraevsky, in her mind was the last diagnostic authority, and, having received the same answer here, the woman, not believing it, jumped out of the window and died. An autopsy revealed no signs of cancer.
Before morphological confirmation of the diagnosis, as already noted, in no case can one speak with certainty about the diagnosis, because diagnostic errors occur quite often.
The mother of one of the largest surgeons in Moscow lived in Gorky. She fell ill and was diagnosed with stomach cancer by X-ray. The operation was performed by an experienced professor in the presence of the patient’s son and two other professors – friends of the son. During laparotomy, tumor lesions of the entire stomach, enlarged and dense lymph nodes in all areas of metastasis, and contamination of the peritoneum were discovered. To everyone present at the operation, the diagnosis seemed so clear and reliable that a biopsy was not taken. The patient lived for more than ten years and died from another cause. An autopsy revealed almost complete regression of the process, and histological examination revealed tuberculosis of the stomach and peritoneum.
Here it is appropriate to draw attention to the fact that this kind of observation is widely used for selfish purposes by charlatans and “healers.” Each of them knows how to talk about cases of miraculous cures and show such cured people. Rumors about them spread quickly and widely among the population.
Doctors, when medically examining cancer patients and talking with them and their relatives, depending on their characterological characteristics, often fall into two extremes. This refers to unjustified optimism and intimidation, a sharply pessimistic attitude of the doctor towards the possible outcome of the disease. Neither one nor the other should take place, especially when talking to patients. If a doctor suspects a malignant tumor in a patient, then both the patient and his relatives should be immediately informed in a non-intimidating manner about the seriousness of the situation and the need for further examination. Focusing on the seriousness of the disease should not in itself cause a natural reaction of fear for a cancer patient. Unfortunately, this happens quite often.
Woman, 43 years old, professor of mathematics. A few months ago she began to experience slight pain in both mammary glands; they seemed to become denser to the touch. Bypassing the usual stages of examination, she immediately went to a well-known surgeon who does not professionally deal with breast diseases. After a three-minute examination, the professor recommended surgery for the woman because he suspected bilateral breast cancer. This suspicion was expressed to the patient and her husband in a fairly transparent manner and a treatment plan was immediately outlined: bilateral mastectomy, oophorectomy with possible subsequent chemotherapy.
It is easy to imagine the degree of fright of this actively living and working woman. She came to another institution for advice in a state of extreme depression - she gave the impression of being sentenced to death. During a detailed clinical examination, which included, in addition to a detailed examination, x-ray and cytological examination, bilateral diffuse mastopathy was diagnosed, which required only long-term drug therapy and regular follow-up examinations.
7 years have passed. The woman is healthy and works successfully. This highly cultured and educated person spoke about difficult experiences during the period when she was intimidated, and said that she did not agree to the operation and began to look for another doctor precisely because of the fleeting examination and the frightening conclusions of the professor.
Even if the diagnosis of cancer seems undoubted, it is more correct to direct the patient to serious further examination and treatment. This should result from a careful, leisurely examination and examination and an equally serious conversation. A hasty conclusion by a doctor gives rise to either distrust of his opinion or a judgment about the complete evidence of an advanced tumor process.
Typically, a diagnosis of cancer is not the final stage of the examination. Only after cancer has been detected do we have to find out important details that determine the possibility of using special treatment. Therefore, already at the outpatient stage, a plan for in-hospital examination should be drawn up, which should be explained to the patient, explain why all this is necessary, and strictly implement it within the scheduled time frame.
For example, in case of cervical cancer, if combined radiation therapy is planned, a urological examination is necessary. Such patients often complain that they are not hospitalized for treatment, but are “chased” to doctors for no apparent reason. The basis of each such complaint is the lack of proper contact between the doctor preparing the patient for treatment and his patient.
Many outpatient oncologists, having made a tentative diagnosis of a malignant neoplasm, without deontological training, inform the patient that he needs urgent hospitalization and surgery. Indeed, cancer patients should not wait more than 10 days to start treatment, counting from the moment of diagnosis. But 10 days is not emergency hospitalization. It is much better for the patient to schedule a full examination on an outpatient basis and hospitalize him in a specialized institution, where he will be provided with adequate medical care.
Being focused on the need for emergency hospitalization, the patient begins to get nervous, accuse doctors of being slow, or strive to get into any medical institution just to shorten the time before treatment begins. As a result, complaints arise or the patient ends up in a non-core institution, from which he is transferred to oncologists with a significant loss of time. All these facts, unfortunately, are not uncommon and give rise to a requirement to familiarize the patient with the plan of his examination and the duration of his hospitalization. Then he will calmly undergo the examination and wait for exactly the place in the hospital that he needs and is intended for. This behavior of the doctor is correct and deontologically justified.
Very often, an oncologist at a clinic allows himself to single-handedly draw up a treatment plan and announce it to the patient. In particular, this applies to the proposal of surgery when the examination has not yet been completed. Later, after the examination is completed, especially in a hospital, additional circumstances may be revealed that exclude the possibility of surgery.
In this case, an unusually complex deontological situation arises. The patient has already experienced and overcome the fear of surgery; he believes that only after it can recovery occur (many patients think that only the surgical method is effective for all forms of tumors). And suddenly he is denied surgery. Now thoughts of incurability appear and despair sets in. It is precisely on the basis of these deontological considerations that only the doctor who takes personal responsibility for the upcoming treatment has the right to propose an operation and discuss with the patient and his relatives the possible outcomes and consequences of the operation. Only him and no one else.
In all doubtful cases, when different methods of treatment can be chosen or combined methods proposed, a consultation is absolutely necessary. It is absolutely unacceptable in our case for the opinion of a doctor of any qualification that he can equally well know all the treatment methods used in oncology: surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, etc. If the patient is facing a very large and objectively dangerous operation, and There are other methods of treatment, perhaps less radical, but giving hope for recovery or a fairly long-term remission, then the doctor is obliged to tell the patient and his relatives in detail about all possible treatment options.
In oncology, there are many variants of the disease with malignant neoplasms, when the alternative is clear and undeniable: radical treatment or death. This is the case, for example, with operable stomach cancer. However, in such cases, the decision on the use of a relatively life-threatening treatment method looks different than in general, especially emergency, surgery. Postoperative mortality during major operations on the lungs, rectum, stomach, esophagus, and kidney, despite all our efforts, continues to remain quite high.
In addition, even if the operation is performed most carefully in compliance with all the principles of oncological surgery and complex treatment, there is no guarantee against the appearance of metastases in the coming months. For stage III gastric cancer, only 30–35% of those operated on live more than 5 years. If the number of deaths in these periods is taken to be 100%, then almost 50% of them die within the first two years, with the bulk in the first year. Thus, for some of the apparently successfully operated patients, the average lifespan is almost no longer than the average lifespan of unoperated patients with stomach cancer. It follows from this that deciding on surgery for stomach cancer is not at all easy and requires taking into account all the life circumstances of a given person and discussing these circumstances with his relatives and friends.
Unjustified optimism leads to the fact that after 1-2 years, a doctor who promised a complete recovery sometimes remains face to face with the patient’s bereaved family and must answer to them - primarily because people believe that their relative did not die due to neglect illness, but due to the lack of skill of the doctor.
It is difficult to solve this deontological problem: on the one hand, the doctor’s confidence in the complete futility of the future life of a cancer patient (if he has not undergone special treatment) comes into conflict, and on the other hand, there is a still insignificant number of successful outcomes of such treatment.
This does not mean that patients with stage III tumors should be denied surgery. Vast experience in oncological surgery shows that even with severe forms of gastric cancer with metastases to neighboring organs and regional lymph nodes, it is possible in some cases to achieve a complete cure. The contradictory position of the oncologist and the surgeon, discussing questions about the appointment of an operation for each patient, gives rise to significant deontological difficulties. In fact, the patient’s refusal to undergo surgery should quite reasonably be considered a consequence of a deontological error. At the same time, complaints from relatives about a doctor whose patient died immediately or very shortly after a major operation are also a consequence of a deontological error. There is only one way out of this situation. When the examination of the patient is completed and his fate is fully discussed at the council, two conversations should take place: one with the patient, the second - always in the absence of the patient - with people close to him.
It is better to first talk with relatives and then with the patient, because most people want to discuss this issue with their loved ones as soon as possible after the proposal to undergo surgery, and they should be prepared for this conversation. The patient is informed that after a comprehensive discussion by experienced doctors of his disease and state of health, taking into account literally all the circumstances, there is no other option but surgery. It must be said that he certainly has a curable form of the disease, without naming the disease itself.
Oddly enough, most patients do not ask for a diagnosis. If they ask, then they should say that they have a borderline form of the disease, which in the future can turn into cancer if the diseased organ is not removed in a timely manner. Only if the patient refuses or hesitates, and the form of the disease really gives reasonable hope for recovery, there is nothing left to do but tell the patient that he has a curable form of cancer.
When talking with relatives, the tone should be different. If the decision to undergo an operation is made unconditionally at a medical consultation, the patient’s relatives must be told about this, but the possible complications and the possible, albeit small, but present possibility of an unfavorable outcome should be pointed out. If surgery is truly necessary, the recommendation should be categorical and categorical. If doctors have doubts, it is absolutely necessary to inform relatives of the matter in order to avoid further misunderstandings.
At the same time, it is far from indifferent who conducts the conversations. You cannot entrust the most important conversation with a patient and his relatives to a young doctor, even a qualified and conscientious one, but due to his age and official position, he does not yet inspire much confidence in patients. The interview should be carried out by the most authoritative doctor in the department, well prepared not only by medical experience, but also by life experience to solve complex deontological problems. The presence of the attending physician during the conversation is also mandatory.
It is necessary to emphasize once again that the issue of surgery or another method of treatment that is dangerous for a cancer patient should be decided collectively, and the conversation with the patient and his relatives on this topic must be conducted by the most authoritative doctor of the given team. This should become the norm of behavior for people working in the oncology department, and should not cause any internal disagreements or mutual mistrust.
The same should be said about choosing a surgeon. Resolving this issue requires great tact from the head of the department. This question is not worth raising at all. Both parties imply that the patient trusts the entire team of the department, and the head of the department guarantees that the operation is performed at the required operational and technical level.
If the patient and his relatives request that the operation be performed by a certain doctor and the operation can actually be performed by this doctor, then there is no reason to refuse the patient, even if this doctor does not directly treat this patient. Another decision may lead to the patient refusing the operation and losing time, so precious to the patient himself, on persuasion and explanations.
Only when a doctor who has earned the trust of his patient is not ready to perform an operation of the required volume and complexity, the head of the department, in a conversation with the patient and his relatives, should, emphasizing respect for the doctor they have chosen, say that the department has some specialization of doctors . The profile of the chosen doctor is somewhat different. He, the manager, will personally ensure the quality of the operation.
There is also the opposite situation, when the most experienced head of the department, due to his age or state of health, cannot perform this operation, but the patient trusts him, having learned from other patients, and sometimes from the press, about his skill and good outcomes of operations performed in past years.
Every experienced surgeon, especially an oncologist who performs complex, multi-hour volumetric operations, has to eventually move away directly from work at the operating table and limit his surgical activities. One or more students are ahead of their boss in a purely technical sense, but have not yet had time to gain his experience and wisdom, which comes with age.
The wisdom of a teacher should be manifested not only in diagnosis and choice of treatment tactics, but also in the ability to maintain a healthy team, not create competition with students, and at every stage of a doctor’s entire life, take the right place in the team he leads. In this case, the leading oncologist surgeon explains to the patient who has approached him with a request to personally operate that he will definitely take part in the operation.
The balance of power at the operating table, especially now when most operations are performed under anesthesia, ultimately remains unknown to the patient. He must have complete confidence that the operation is being carried out by the “first team” of operators, and in no case should there be deception. Nihilism in these cases is not acceptable. Failure to comply with the “ritual” becomes known to other patients and can be a reason for refusing operations. In cases where these simple deontological rules are not followed, a conflict situation inevitably arises.
Nursing staff both in the clinic and in the hospital play an important role in creating a sincere atmosphere. Many nurses perfectly understand their place in the oncology service system and correctly assess the mental state of patients. Still, the work of a nurse in an oncology department is very difficult, and not everyone is capable of working in the complex atmosphere of an oncology institution. S. B. Korzh gives the following striking example:
Nurse X. performed her professional duties well and accurately. She has never been subject to administrative penalties. But here are the facts indicating that her choice of profession turned out to be wrong; her sister works without a soul.
The patient asked her sister for headache powder. An hour passed, maybe more, but the sister still didn’t give me the powder. When the patient again asked to give her the powder, the sister got angry and said: “Wait, you won’t die from a headache, but you will die from the disease with which you came here.” This was said in the ward in the presence of several other patients with cervical cancer.
After such a frank statement from the nurse, the patients were extremely upset, cried and lost their peace of mind for a long time. A month later, this nurse in another ward, when asked by a patient what illness she had, answered: “If I tell you what you have, the doctor will cut out my tongue.” This was said to the patient, who an hour before had been in a deep faint... Such obvious cruelty forced the head of the department to invite the sister to his office for an explanation. She expressed her attitude towards the sick and towards her profession in one phrase: “I will not be their sun.”
Many complaints arise due to incomplete information that patients and their relatives receive from paramedics, nurses and roommates. The reason for this is primarily due to the insufficient deontological qualifications of some doctors who do not find the time or desire to have exhaustive conversations with interested parties. The lack of information when it is absolutely necessary for patients with malignant neoplasms, experiencing the fear that is natural for this category of patients, forces them to look for new sources of information, often completely incompetent, from which patients receive perverted descriptions of the doctors treating them, fantastic information about supposedly unusually effective drugs, who begin to urgently “get”, etc. The search for additional consultants and other methods of treatment begins. As a result, an extremely nervous environment is created around the patient, interfering with planned and carefully thought-out examination and treatment.
It is common for cancer patients to attempt to consult with many doctors at different institutions. At the same time, they are driven by a natural and understandable desire to overcome fear, perhaps to discover an error in the diagnosis and hear the offer of a less stressful, more gentle treatment. At the same time, many patients carefully hide from both the consultant and their attending physician the facts of visiting another doctor, based on the following considerations. Firstly, they do not want to offend their doctor or spoil their relationship with him by the appearance of mistrust. Secondly, patients want to hear from the consultant his own opinion, not related to the previous diagnosis.
In such cases, it is not at all difficult to guess what is happening. The attending physician commits a deontological error if he at least makes it clear to the patient about his offense at the lack of trust, even if there is one. In reality, the doctor can only be offended by himself, because the patient’s appeal to another doctor for advice indicates that he, the doctor, is not authoritative enough for his patient. This means that he did not do everything convincingly, he himself did not understand this in a timely manner and did not organize such a consultation.
The normal situation from a deontological point of view should be the participation of the attending physician in all consultations and consultations concerning his patient. He must determine for himself who and when to show the patient and inform him in a timely manner about his plans, and take care of his spiritual care from the Church. Then there will be no search for experienced doctors on the side, consultations on the sly, conflicting judgments that create confusion and uncertainty in the patient and lead to loss of time and delay in starting treatment.
The behavior and deontological training of the doctor consulted, who usually has extensive experience and extensive scientific titles, play a very important role in the fate of the patient. Often the consultant finds himself in a difficult position, not having received at the time of the examination a set of objective data that had already been collected by that time by the attending physician.
Considering the difficulty of making a detailed and substantiated oncological diagnosis and developing the correct modern tactical decision, a consultant, agreeing to examine a patient being examined in another institution, as a rule, must set the condition that the patient be introduced by the attending physician, having all the examination data in hand. Then the consultation immediately takes on the correct character and can allow a truly very experienced doctor to give useful advice on clarifying the diagnosis and choosing an adequate treatment method. If the participation of the attending physician in the consultation is impossible, but he knows about it, then before examining the patient, the consultant must obtain the necessary information from the attending physician by telephone or other means, and the outcome of his conversation with the patient must be reported to him before the patient comes back for an appointment. . Only such behavior is deontologically sound and justified.
Being a representative and sometimes the leader of a certain direction in oncology, affirming and promoting his existing system of views, the consultant should not, has no right to forget that his point of view may not be the only correct one, and most importantly, that the patient does not care about scientific disagreements. An example is the controversy surrounding the treatment of breast cancer.
For many years, the Leningrad School of Oncologists regularly promoted and practiced the use of postoperative chemotherapy for relatively early forms of cancer of this localization. At the same time, at the Moscow Scientific Research Institute named after. P. A. Herzen, for these same forms, only surgical treatment was used. When analyzing long-term results, almost identical data were obtained. Consequently, until the large randomized trials currently underway in many countries are completed, which will make it possible to objectively establish truly optimal treatment methods for each stage and form of the disease, no doctor has the right to speak negatively about the methods in a conversation with patients. used in other institutions, giving rise to doubts among patients about the correctness of the recommended or performed treatment.
Here's another example. In a number of scientific studies carried out on large, but retrospective material, it was proven that in case of melanoma of the skin it is necessary to perform prophylactic lymphadenectomy. This seemed obvious primarily because when examining lymph nodes removed for prophylactic purposes, melanoma metastases were found in almost 1/4 of the cases. An international randomized study conducted with the participation of Russian scientists, using a very large number of carefully controlled observations, found that prophylactic lymphadenectomy for skin melanoma does not improve treatment results, while therapeutic lymphadenectomy for palpable nodes is undoubtedly useful. What basis did doctors have for telling patients who had been treated for the primary lesion without prophylactic lymphadenectomy that the doctor who treated them was using the wrong, erroneous tactics?
When assessing the prescribed or performed treatment, the consultant only then has the right, in a cautious manner, and even then not to the patient, but to the attending physician, to advise a change in tactics or additional treatment if he is sure of the insufficiency or inadequacy of the treatment, and not only from his personal point of view, but also based on the main, fundamentally important prognosis factors.
For example, in oncology, regardless of the general settings of a particular clinic, it seems necessary to carry out complex or combination therapy for breast cancer in the presence of regional, especially multiple metastases. This point of view at this stage of development of oncology is generally accepted, and disagreements concern only the choice of methods of additional exposure (radiation therapy, chemotherapy, etc.), as well as the sequence of their use. Therefore, for example, if during a consultation with a patient with breast cancer stage T2-N2-MO the attending physician decided to limit himself to surgical treatment only, then the consultant must make adjustments to the treatment plan, but do this carefully, without instilling in the patient the idea that the measures being taken are incorrect.
If the patient is prescribed chemotherapy, and the consultant prefers a combination of radiation and hormonal therapy, he has no moral right to change the prescription. It is only possible in contact with the attending physician, and not at all with the patient, to try to justify the recommended amendments to the treatment plan. Any other behavior of the consultant from a deontological point of view is incorrect, because it worsens the patient’s mental state and gives rise to doubts about the correctness of the treatment with all the ensuing consequences.
The greatest deontological difficulties are encountered when providing medical care to cancer patients of clinical group IV. As is known, responsibility for these patients lies with local therapists with consultation and assistance from district oncologists. However, it is local therapists who are least prepared in matters of deontology in relation to cancer patients. Most often, the incorrect behavior of doctors lies in the fact that, when faced with significant psychological difficulties at the bedside of a seriously ill patient at home without the prospect of a full recovery, they voluntarily or involuntarily strive to limit communication with this person, rarely visit him, and do not know how to create an environment of struggle for his health and life. The patient develops, in addition to fear for his fate, a feeling of abandonment, uselessness, and detachment.
At the same time, the doctor, using basic psychotherapy techniques, regulating the patient’s nutrition and physiological functions, promptly bandaging him or emptying the body cavities of fluids (evacuation of ascitic or pleural fluid, etc.), can significantly improve the patient’s general condition. Even the most seriously ill patient, with the skillful behavior of the doctor and relatives, is able to believe in the success of treatment.
An example of this is the medical history of N. I. Pirogov. In 1881, the medical community solemnly celebrated the half-century anniversary of the medical and scientific activities of the outstanding surgeon. In the small Ukrainian village of Vishnya, where the “old doctor” lived (as N.I. Pirogov called himself in the “Diary” he was working on in those days), messages of greetings arrived from all over Russia. Various medical societies and institutes elected N. I. Pirogov as an honorary member; Memorial chambers were opened in his honor, and personalized scholarships were established.
Nikolai Ivanovich had not experienced such spiritual uplift for a long time. And if it weren’t for the ulcer in the mouth, which sometimes stung and made itself felt, everything would have been great. “Isn’t this a cancerous thing?” - Pirogov sometimes asked his wife and immediately drove away this terrible thought.
May 21 was approaching - the “round” date and the climax of the celebration. Nikolai Ivanovich arrived in Moscow, where he became an honorary citizen these days. He was honored at the university. The artist I. E. Repin expressed a desire to paint a portrait of the surgeon, and Pirogov posed for him several times.
Busy with the anniversary celebrations, he completely forgot about the wound in his mouth and only a few days after his arrival in Moscow showed it to Professor N.V. Sklifosovsky. Meanwhile, the ulcer managed to increase. The diagnosis was beyond doubt: cancer of the upper jaw. The very next day, an authoritative medical council met and decided to operate on the famous surgeon.
This news seriously traumatized Pirogov. Having hardly sat through the grand banquet at the Assembly of Nobility, which was held in his honor, he, at the insistence of his wife and relatives, went to Vienna to the famous European surgeon Theodor Billroth. After examining the patient, Billroth categorically rejected the previous diagnosis and reassured his brilliant patient. According to the testimony of Doctor S.S. Shklyarevsky, who accompanied N.I. Pirogov on this trip, “N.I. Pirogov’s disposition of spirit in Vienna changed sharply and quickly: from the murdered and decrepit old man he was during the road from Moscow to Vienna, he again became cheerful and fresh... N.I. and those accompanying him were full of happiness.”
Billroth gave Pirogov his photograph as a souvenir with the following inscription on the back: “Dear teacher Nikolai Pirogov. – Truthfulness and clarity of thoughts and feelings, both in words and in deeds, are the steps of the ladder that brings a person closer to the gods. To you, who must follow this not always safe path as a reliable leader, is always my zealous desire.
Your sincere admirer and friend is Billroth.”
Upon returning home, Nikolai Ivanovich sent him his portrait. Pirogov’s cheerful and good mood, caused by Billroth’s categorical conclusion about the benign nature of the ulcer, lasted almost until his death.
Was Billroth wrong in his diagnosis? From published epistolary materials it is known that he knew about the true nature of the disease. However, the patient’s advanced age and the neglect of the process did not allow him to suggest surgery. “It’s unlikely he would have undergone surgery; but even with a favorable outcome, one would have to fear a very quick relapse,” he wrote to Doctor Vyvodtsev in Russia. Billroth used his unquestioned authority to instill in Pirogov hopes for a favorable outcome of the disease and thereby provided him with peace of mind. “...I wanted to divert the patient’s attention from the nature of his illness, to maintain fortitude and patience in him... I acted as my duty and many years of experience prescribed me...”, he explained his behavior to the same addressee.
The core of medicine is mercy, and if it is impossible to radically help the patient, then we must strive with all our might to alleviate his suffering.
Most complaints arise when hospitalization is denied to patients of clinical group IV. It is not uncommon for heads of health authorities and institutions to make no difference in the concepts of hospitalization “for care”.
First concept- purely medical, and for palliative therapy patients must be hospitalized without fail. This refers to hospitalization for the imposition of an unnatural anus, elimination of airway stenosis and other important non-radical operations and manipulations.
It is deontologically correct to determine the indications for palliative treatment when it is not caused by emergency indications, talk with the patient and his relatives about the actual period of the patient’s placement in the hospital and explain why this is being done. Palliative therapy almost always brings relief to patients, and they willingly return home, especially if they are in good contact with the local doctor and local oncologist and are confident that at home they will be surrounded by attention and receive all the necessary medical care. If the doctor behaves incorrectly and does not understand the tasks of deontology, then misunderstandings arise and then complaints are inevitable.
Second concept– hospitalization “for care” is social and means the hospitalization of those patients who do not have relatives or their living conditions do not allow them to sufficiently organize medical care at home. Experience shows that if such patients are denied hospitalization and they begin to contact higher authorities, then sooner or later they will still be hospitalized, even if the head of the health care institution seems to have insufficient social validity of the demands of the patient and his relatives. Therefore, one should not insist on refusal and give advice to the patient’s relatives about reorganizing their life and work to serve a seriously ill patient at home.
Doctors are obliged to take care not only of saving a person’s life, but also of creating an encouraging moral atmosphere around the patient. If a conflict situation arises around a patient with a malignant tumor belonging to clinical group IV, the doctor’s duty is to find an opportunity to at least temporarily change this situation. Hospitalization in such cases immediately changes everything dramatically and eliminates the conflict.
Is cancer cured by performing the Church Sacraments?
Is it possible to cure cancer by performing church sacraments? It's possible, although it doesn't happen often. Usually, healing is associated with internal changes in a person that occur in the Sacrament of Repentance. Cleansing the soul leads to healing the body. As a result of unction (the Sacrament of Anointing), the Lord forgives a person for sins that he committed out of ignorance or that he forgot during the course of his life over a long period of time. Unction is a sacrament, during or after which the patient’s mental strength is strengthened and his physical condition is improved until the tumor self-destructs.
Cases of God's help in the form of healings are possible after prayers before the icons of the Mother of God, the relics of the holy saints of God (see appendices) and other shrines. Sometimes it happens that after prayers a person is not healed of a tumor, but it seems to “freeze”, “freeze” at the stage at which the person came with a request to God. There is a group of patients who have passed all the deadlines for which both metastasis and transition to another stage should have occurred, but everything “stopped.” This is a manifestation of the action of God’s grace, strengthening the mental and physical makeup of a person, according to the strength of his faith and trust in the Creator.
Often, a patient can receive a significant improvement in his condition and even possibly recover from immersion in the waters of the Holy Springs. To this day, near ancient Russian monasteries there are springs that, in addition to their beneficial powers, have natural healing properties due to the unique chemical composition of the water they contain. Every diocese, every Russian province has its own local shrines, which you can learn about and to which you can and should resort.
However, the oncologist and cancer patient should know that another process is also possible - rapid malignancy (“malignization”) of tumors. The reason for this is the influence of a psychic, sorcerer, bioenergetics, etc. while contacting him. The action of another force manifests itself - satanic, contrary in nature to the action of the grace of God. The price to pay for this is malignancy.
In the 17th century, the Athonite elder Joseph the Hesychast bequeathed to his disciples. The icon depicts the Mother of God in a scarlet robe, seated on the royal throne. Behind her are two angels who reverently overshadow the Most Pure Virgin with their wings. In the arms of the Mother of God is the Infant God. He holds a scroll in his left hand and raised his right hand in a blessing gesture.
The Mother of God, with her right hand, points to the Son of God, emphasizing that this is the Savior of all people. This icon is of medium size and is distinguished by skillful execution. The halo of the Virgin Mary has enamel patterns. And on the halo of the Divine Infant it is written in Greek: “From whom is everything around.”
Where and by whom was the icon painted?
It is believed that the icon was created in the 17th century, but many historians are convinced that it was painted in the 12th by an unknown artist. But only after it fell into the hands of the elder of the Athos monastery did it become known and its miraculousness was truly confirmed.
The first miracle, which confirmed the divine power of the icon, occurred almost immediately after it was placed in the temple of the Athos Monastery. A young man, an adherent of black magic, decided to test his power on the Holy icons. To do this, he came to the Vatopedi Monastery, where there were many Holy icons. As soon as the young man entered the territory of the monastery, it was as if he was drawn by an unknown force to the Main Cathedral. It was there that the icon of the All-Tsaritsa was located. He approached her and began muttering black magic spells.
Suddenly, lightning flashed from the Image, striking the young man, throwing him back. The young man ran out of the temple in fright. On the way, he met a priest and told him about what happened to him. The frightened young man admitted that he had no faith in God in his soul and was practicing black magic.
After this, the young man’s life changed, he repented, decided to devote his life to the service of God and remained in the Athos monastery.
The meaning of the icon name
The icon of the Mother of God “The Tsaritsa” also has a second name “Pantanassa”. Translated from Greek, this means “All-Mistress”, “All-Mistress”. This icon fully corresponds to its name and is of great importance for all Orthodox Christians.
Over the course of her fame, she performed many miraculous healings. This image is considered the most powerful for the fight against cancer. It is capable of changing the worldview of lost people; many magicians and sorcerers stopped their activities under the influence of the icon. The Mother of God is able to instruct on the righteous path, she strengthens a person’s faith and, by coming to her, one can find consolation.
Has the shrine survived to this day?
The original icon of the “Vsetsaritsa” is still located in the Main Cathedral Church on Holy Athos in the Vatopedi Monastery. It is in this place that monastic tonsure takes place. This area is amazingly picturesque and beautiful. The monastery itself is very ancient; according to legend, it was founded in the 10th century. There are 12 temples on its territory. In addition, there are many more temples and small churches scattered around the area. The Vatopedi Monastery has an ancient library.
When in the 17th century it was confirmed that the All-Tsarina icon helped people recover from tumor diseases, many accurate copies of it were written on Mount Athos. Copies have been distributed to different countries and, according to the testimony of believers, they are miraculous, and many of them stream myrrh. All the miracles that are performed by the icon of the All-Tsarina are described in church books.
The icon “The Tsaritsa”, first of all, gained its fame due to the healing of cancer patients. This feature was noticed in ancient times by the monks of St. Athos. Today, many pilgrims strive for this prayer on the Holy Mountain.
Oncology was described by Hippocrates; he called this disease “carcinoma.” This disease was also known to healers in Ancient Egypt. Many years have passed, but even today medicine cannot cope with this disease. Therefore, prayer at the icon “The Queen of All” remains the only hope for many. Almost all sincere believers receive help - for some, the tumor freezes, and sometimes disappears without a trace. Special pilgrimage trips are organized for cancer patients. But you should know that only men can enter Holy Mount Athos.
In Russia, the miraculous list is located in the children's oncology center in Moscow. In addition, lists of icons are located in various other monasteries and churches.
Text of the Orthodox prayer for the fight against cancer:
Prayer before the icon of the All-Tsarina in Russian:
“Oh, Most Pure Mother of God, All-Tsarina! Hear my painful sighing and my petition before Your miraculous icon. Your image was brought from the Holy Place of Athos to Russia. Pay attention to my sincere appeal and my prayer. I ask you to heal my terrible illness and help everyone who falls before your holy image.
Just as a bird protects its chicks from danger with its wings, so You protect and cover us with Your multi-healing omophbra. Grant us hope for healing, which will help us survive the most severe sorrows. Remove the darkness of despair from our souls, let the soul be filled with joy. May the ineffable Divine light shine upon us through Your prayer! Give comfort to the faint-hearted, strengthen the weak, soften hardened hearts and grant enlightenment. Heal me, O All-Merciful Queen!
I ask you to bless the mind and hands of those who heal me, so that they may serve as an instrument of the Most High, Christ our Savior. As before the living You, I pray before Your icon and sincerely fall before it. Extend your helping hands to me, filled with healing and healing. Give joy to those who mourn, give consolation to everyone in sorrow. We all who have received Your miraculous help glorify the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
A short version of the prayer goes like this:
“Oh, All-Good, Most Holy Theotokos, most worthy of the worthy, wonderful Mother of God, Pantanosa, All-Tsarina! I am not worthy to call you, Holy and Pious, to enter under my roof! But I ask you to hear my request, to show your mercy to me, God-loving Mother of God, speak your strong word, may my soul be healed and my weak body strengthened. Only You can show your will and strength, help me live in health and prosperity. (You can ask for healing for your loved ones). I pray to You, Queen of All, and I believe that you will ask our Lord Almighty for me. I will glorify Your Holy Name always. Amen".
Listen to the akathist before the icon of the Mother of God “The All-Tsarina”:
Why is this prayer considered miraculous?
The icon “The Queen of All” is considered miraculous because it helps in solving various problems. Often people turn to her to get rid of drug and alcohol addiction. Moreover, in this case, parents and simply close people can pray for the salvation of a person from vices.
Of course, the power of the icon in the fight against cancer is recognized. But at the same time, you can pray for healing from other diseases and to improve your health in general. In addition, prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of this icon helps to get rid of external negative influences, such as damage or the evil eye. Often women who cannot get pregnant for a long time turn to Our Lady for help. Such a prayer will help give birth to a healthy child.
How to read it correctly
It is imperative to pray in front of this image in church. In addition, in order for prayer to be more effective, it is necessary to attend church services. The Gospel says that the Lord is necessarily present among believers who gather in church to pray. Congregational prayer in Orthodoxy is considered more powerful. God always wants people to worry about each other, thus they participate through prayer in the salvation of their neighbor.
If a person is very sick, then you can order a special prayer for him, which will be read during the Liturgy. It is permissible to read kathismas near the icon “The All-Tsarina” and end them with a short prayer to the Mother of God, in which the names of your loved ones must be mentioned.
It is very painful when an incurable illness has overtaken a loved one; in order to maintain faith in the soul and help a loved one be miraculously healed, you need to pray in front of the icon of the All-Tsarina. You should remember that you cannot give up, even if the most terrible diagnosis has been made. If you sincerely pray to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of the icon of the All-Tsaritsa, then a miracle will definitely happen and your loved one will recover. It must be remembered that many cases have been recorded when a prayer to the All-Tsaritsa for cancer healed many people from oncology.
Priests claim that cancer is a warning from God. By sending a test in the form of cancer, the Almighty warns that it is time for a person to repent of his sins and begin to live according to the laws of God. This is a serious warning and you need to really think about your lifestyle and behavior. The main thing in such a situation is not to despair, either for the sick person or for his loved ones.
How to ask for help for your loved ones
It is very important to know how to correctly pray to the Most Holy Theotokos for help for your loved ones and relatives. First of all, you need to remember that prayer will be effective if you say it with all your soul. A prayer request will only help if you feel a spiritual connection with the person for whom the prayer is being offered. There must be a desire in the soul to sincerely help a person. You need to believe that it is your prayer that will help your loved one recover. Any doubts should be cast aside.
It is very important to recite the prayer text by heart. Of course, you must adhere to the main meaning, but it is also possible to include your own wishes for your loved one in the text. This will allow you to increase the power of prayer. If you read the prayer text from a sheet or simply pronounce it mechanically, there will be no result. This is due to the fact that in this case, sincerity cannot be invested.
A person’s attitude is important for the effectiveness of prayer. It is necessary to discard all extraneous thoughts. For some time you need to stand in front of the icon in silence with thoughts of a loved one who has suffered misfortune. You can’t think about anything bad at this moment. You need to concentrate only on your love and respect for the person who really needs help.
If everything is done correctly, then a strong energetic connection arises between the person who prays and the sick person, which serves as a bridge for transferring additional forces from the outside to fight the terrible disease.
When praying for a loved one, you need to say prayer words directly in front of the icon. Only in this case can you receive the necessary and directed energy message from the sacred image.
It is important to understand that reading a prayer in front of the All-Tsaritsa icon for the healing of a loved one from cancer is a difficult and long journey. There is no need to expect that a miracle will happen the next day after reading the prayer. In order for your request to be heard, you need to pray every day. Moreover, it is very important not to lose sincerity, which should permeate every prayer phrase. In this case, the faith of the person praying also plays an important role. That is, you should truly believe that the person close to you will get better.
Despite the fact that the prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of the icon of the All-Tsarina, aimed at curing a patient from cancer, must be read in church, you also need to have the same icon at home. It is periodically tedious to address her in your own words, expressing your desire to help a sick person. It is also recommended to install a small icon next to the bed of a sick person. Some people claim that it is enough to simply look at the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos and the pain will recede and strength will increase.
It is very important, after reading the prayer, to ask the Lord to give strength not only to the sick person, but also to your entire family; you need to pray that patience does not leave you and that this will be a blessing.
Since serious illnesses in a person can develop as a result of negative external influences, prayer in front of the icon of the All-Tsarina will help get rid of such consequences.
It should be remembered that damage or the evil eye can only be removed through sincere prayer. It is very important that a person has sincere faith in his soul. In this case, it will be possible to quickly restore the energy field damaged by someone’s unkind look or word.
In order to remove the negative message, fully concentrate on the spoken prayer text. The prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos, which is said in front of the icon of the All-Tsaritsa, is understandable, so it must be spoken, being aware of each phrase. In addition, it is necessary to insert personal requests into it. They must be specific and understandable. The stronger and more precise the request sounds in prayer, the greater the likelihood that a positive answer will be received in the shortest possible time.
If you realize that you have been subjected to an energy attack, then, first of all, you need to harmonize your body and calm down. It is very important to put aside all life’s grievances against other people. Even if you know who tried to harm you, then you should not wish this person harm. Remember that if you do not do this, then the healing and very powerful prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of the icon of the All-Tsarina will simply be useless.
It is also permissible to pray in front of this icon with a request for help to a loved one if you are sure that he has been jinxed or is under the influence of damage. If you offer prayer in an unbalanced state, then with your negative emotions you can harm a person.
You should not expect that by praying once you will be able to get rid of the damage. You need to pray in front of the icon several times a day. In addition, you should visit the temple at least once a week and light a candle for your own health.
Video prayer for the sick to the Mother of God, in front of the icon “The Tsaritsa”
In the medical scientific community, it is still a mystery why cancer appears. The fact that the Lord and his saints help the sick to be healed is not in doubt. Doctors cannot scientifically explain the frequent cases of miraculous help from above, and those who received healing thank God for their restored health.
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As soon as a person finds out that he has cancer, he becomes desperate and does not know what to do. Then comes the rush to hospitals, from rejection the person moves to rejection and resentment for his misfortune, to a state of complete despair. Then comes the acceptance of one’s cross and humility, after which healing is possible.
- Make the sign of the cross and bow.
- Accept post. The patient does not need to limit himself to healthy foods, but he can restrain himself from excesses and delicacies. You should observe spiritual fasting: avoid everything unclean, do alms, read the Holy Scriptures more.
- Light candles in front of the images. You should purchase icons of Christ the Savior, the Most Holy Theotokos “Vsetsaritsa”, Saint Panteleimon the Healer and Luke Voino-Yasenetsky.
- When saying the words of prayer, you must believe in subsequent healing. An Orthodox Christian is called to endure even the most difficult trials with a feeling of gratitude to God for everything.
Rules for prayer for healing
If a person has suffered a misfortune in the form of cancer, one should constantly pray, asking the Lord for recovery. If you accept illness as a test that was sent from above, you can believe and hope for the help of the Almighty.
Any prayer is a spiritual work that requires some effort. Prayers for oncology include a number of features. So, before starting to read healing texts, it is advisable to ask for the blessing of your confessor. The priest will tell you when a prayer is correct and can help, and which one looks like a conspiracy. It is worth reading prayers with burning church candles or a lamp. The symbol of a candle shows a person’s involvement in the divine light and is an image of aspiration towards God.
When a patient reads a prayer with sincere faith, its power becomes effective. When he pronounces every word of the prayer he reads with his heart and feels repentance, he gets rid of everything unclean in himself.
Prayer before the image of “The Queen of All”
Life becomes very difficult for a cancer patient. His loved ones are also having a hard time. Their efforts determine whether the patient will fight for life or fall into despair. Close people need heavenly help and intercession of the Mother of God in the recovery of their loved one.
Prayer before the image of the Virgin Mary “The Queen of All” granted a huge number of people healing from a fatal illness. The history of the image is as follows: one man was fond of witchcraft and decided to test his skills in front of the face of the Virgin Mary. While pronouncing the conspiracy, a bright light suddenly appeared and the wicked man was thrown to the ground by an unknown force. In fear, the sorcerer rushed to the monks, brought repentance and left his godless occupation forever. The name of the image - Pantanassa or mistress, mistress, indicates the special power of the face. At first, having shown a miracle against witchcraft - a spiritual illness, the image over time discovered a special grace in the healing of cancer patients - a serious illness of our time. Thus, in spiritual terms, one can compare the popularization of magic in Orthodox countries with a malignant tumor affecting the body. It is this image that is prayed to as helping against corruption. Now the Pantanassa icon can be found in every church; women suffering from breast cancer especially pray to it.
The miraculous icon of the Mother of God “The All-Tsarina” resides on Mount Athos in the temple of the Vatopedi monastery. The image is easily recognizable: the Mother of God in a scarlet robe sits on a royal throne with pillows, behind are two angels.
Anyone can get relief from their suffering, regardless of whether they went to church or not. If the prayer comes from the heart, sincerely, with a plea for help, the Lord will definitely help.
Thanks to strong faith and the help of the Mother of God, many patients successfully survived cancer. In addition, prayer helps you look at the world around you with different eyes, detach yourself a little from disturbing thoughts and calm down. Before you start praying and ask God for healing, you need to understand your illness. In strong prayer, a person is transported to another space, sees the frailty of all things, realizes a person’s calling in love for others, and, perhaps, will see the true causes of the disease.
Prayer to the All-Tsarina
In the church you should definitely order an akathist for the sick in front of the Pantanassa icon. This requirement is fulfilled by the priest; it is advisable for those who ordered it to be present during the reading. If possible, you should order such services in monasteries and other churches, because common prayer has special power.
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