Cancer is one of the diseases with the highest morbidity and mortality rate in the world, it is estimated that 2.8 million people are diagnosed each year and 1.3 million people die for this disease annually, with adequate management and the realization of Timely and successful interventions it can be shown that these activities help to reduce the consequences of cancer, in addition to working together with patients to put into practice self-care thus achieving a better quality of life for them. It should be emphasized that one of the difficulties in the patient-professional communication, is the terminology used, leading to a lack of information or poor understanding of this, leading to a lack of information or poor understanding of this, for this reason, a qualitative study was conducted by a focus group with cancer patients attending the Foundation SIMMON, with the purpose of identifying their perceptions about the condition and information needs. Four categories were identified: health- disease process, life habits, support, health care.