Introduction: Cancer is a chronic multifactorial disease that can compromise the patient's body image. Dance can improve this clinical picture and make possible an improvement in the relationship with body image. Objective: To identify the association between dance and body image in cancer patients. Methodology: A systematic review was conducted, between November 23 and 30, 2021, in the databases Science Direct, Virtual Health Library, Cochrane Library, PubMed and Scielo. using the keywords in