TY - SER TI - Cáncer y psicología: Primeras Jornadas de Psicología Oncológica SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa N2 - If President Kennedy bet on the Moon, his colleague Nixon preferred cancer as a crusade. For at least twenty years, this disease, as old as man, became synonymous with evil and displaced, in that imaginary universe of the terrible, the plague, leprosy, tuberculosis. At the same time-and while the language ignored it: <>, <>...-theories (from the virus to roast meats) multiplied. But there is no doubt that one of the flanks of the damage, the psychological side, has been less treated. Hence the importance of these first conferences, of which a brief history is made here, the conclusions are highlighted and papers and communications are reproduced, in a contribution that will continue in the next issue of ROL ER -