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Aim: This study has been made in order to detect the relation between the social support and quality of life that the patients perceive. Importance: It is thought that knowing how and in which areas cancer and its treatment effects the patient and his family’s life quality will be helpful to the cancerous patient and his family to increase their life qualities. Therefore, identifying life quality and perceived social support level of the patients placed in the sample of the study and taking necessary precautions are important in terms of contributing to the treatment process and creating a remedy. Method: Questionnaire has been used in collecting data (socio-demographic questions and questions relating to the illness), Ferrans and Povvers ‘Cancer adaptation of the quality of life index -111(EORTC QLQ-C30)’ has been used for evaluating the quality of life; and ‘Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) has been used in order to identify the social support that the patients perceived.The cancerous patients hospitalized in the clinic of oncology of the Medical Faculty of Meram situated in Konya in 2015 and the patients who came to the chemotherapy unit in order to get outpatient treatment has created the universe of the study.110 patients who are suitable for the research criteria and who accepted to participate in the research, have composed the sample of the study. Results and Findings: As a result of study, a significant positive correlation has been found between the social support that the patients perceived and their total quality of life.When the average scores that the patients in the study group took from the life quality scale are evaluated, it has been determined that the highest average score belongs to psychological / religious subscale 24,27±5,79 and the least average score belongs to health and mobility subscale 21.25±5.82.When the average scores that the patients took from the social support scale are evaluated, it has been seen that the highest average score belongs to the subscale perceived from family 25.21±4.72, and the least average score belongs to the subscale perceived from a special person 15.92±8.82.

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