Cancer wound is a type of a chronic wound, remaining in the continuous phase of the inflammatory, impairing the regeneration and restoration of anatomical and physiological coherence. The cancer wound does not heal even when it is worthily treating. The healing process is inhibited by general and local factors. Increasing problems have a disadvantageous influence on a patient, his family and medical staff. Those problems are: exudation and foetor coming from the wound, bleeding from the wound, the risk of water – electrolyte imbalance, chronic pain and psychical problems related to body disfigurement. The aim of the study was the research of literature in the field of identifying the most common nursing problems occurring in the process of cancer wound healing and submiting the nursing care which decreases patient’s complaints.

Key words: cancer wound, nursing problems, dressing materials, holistic type of treatment.