Introduction:

Women with breast cancer require actions aimed at improving their quality of life. Spirituality is a way to address this situation.

Objective:

Through an integrative review, to identify available evidence related to the use of spirituality to improve the quality of life of women with breast cancer.

Methods:

An integrative search was conducted on the databases of PubMed, LILACS and Scopus, considering an interval of 10 years. Articles written in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, addressing spirituality, quality of life, and breast cancer, were included.

Results:

The final simple contained 23 articles which were analyzed and clustered into 3 categories: quality of life and spirituality, spirituality as an addressing strategy and spirituality supporting interventions.

Discussion:

Women from diverse cultures and spiritual practices referred that spirituality had helped them reorganize their minds, suggesting that, it is important to consider spirituality as part of the holistic care aimed at improving the quality of life of women with breast cancer.

Conclusion:

Health institutions should consider incorporating spiritual and religious practices into their integral treatments, echoing the spiritual needs of patients, including women with breast cancer.