The objective of this study was to understand the process of the sicked of cancer, in men and women, the perspective of the gender. To four women and three men, carriers of cancer of cólon and rectum who were in ambulatorial treatment, in an Institution of Private Health, the city of Fortaleza-CE, in the month of July of 2008 had participated as informing. The information had been collected by half-structuralized interview being organized in categories in agreement analysis of studious content and analyzed consonant of the thematic one of gender. The categories that had emerged had been: The sicked of cancer: spallings and limitations in the life; a life in transformation: of the threats to the overcomings. The depositions all elucidate the process of sicked of cancer and the perception of gender on this event beyond disclosing that the stereotype created by the society concerning sort also are expressed the behavior presented for the people who sicked of cancer.