To measure the influence of knowledge of one's cancer on the degree of religious faith in patients Method: Questioning of 117 patients with cancer who were admitted to the oncology department of the Hôtel Dieu de France Hospital during the period from 24 November 2005 to 1 December 2005, and filling out of an Arabic version of the SCSORF questionnaire: the higher the score on this questionnaire, the more it indicates a high level of religious faith.