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Stress of Working in Oncology Oncology is a medicine area of high psychic investment. Working with cancer patients is a source of human and professional satisfaction but can involve high emotional costs [1,2]. High levels of burnout and compassion fatigue are reported by about 32% of oncologists [3,4] this percentage rises to 70% among people under 40 years [5]. High levels are also found among nursing staff with marked levels of emotional exhaustion [6]. Repeated exposure to suffering and loss, to the side effects and/or the failure of treatments to the end of life stages, to feeling overwhelmed by work, are among the causes of chronic distress that medical staff accumulate in clinical practice. Care of cancer can result in emotional distress and exhaustion, loss of empathy, and demotivation from work [7]. Of no less importance is the “difficult” communications that are estimated at around 20,000 in the career of an oncologist [8].