This paper discusses the topic of the holistic approach to the women with breast cancer. The whole research confirms the well-known fact regarding the great mortality rate among the women who developed this disease, and therefore explores the holistic approach to their treatment as a relative novelty in the treatment where the patient is approached as an individual, and not only by the rules of the old, classical medicine. The whole paper, through diverse arguments and facts actually wants to show how effective this approach is. Therefore, the problem is divided in two crucial parts. Firstly, the disease of breast cancer is explored in medical context, or, in other words, all relevant characteristics of the disease are described, also diagnosis and treatment, and after also in the sociological context through empasizing the serious nature of the disease and the problem it represents for the public health system. The second part describes relatively new, holistic approach to the treatment of this disease, the general chaeracteristics of the approach and his importance in the conteporary medical practice. The most important thing this paper emphasizes is that the patient is approached from the individual perspective. After that, the concrete example shows how the lack and bad organization in the holistic approach looks in the treatment of one patient. The example wants to emphasize the possibility of her longer long-term survival, but also the need for the stronger development of the holistic approach. At the end, the paper gives the conclusion of the whole research.