EN
The contribution is oriented to a specific content issue that is social support and its role in human life. The main objective of providing social support is to facilitate coping with a particular adverse event in the human life. Providing social and emotional support to act against encouraging survival stress acting in the direction of reducing the fear of the treatment, the future, the reduction of depression and despair, leads to reducing the sense of isolation, helplessness, hopelessness, a sense of abandonment. Perceived social support not only during illness contributes to a general improvement of quality of life.