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Titre :
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The Traces of Cancer: A Metaphorical Understanding of the Experiences of Women Living Beyond Breast Cancer (2025)
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Auteurs :
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Alexandra Guité-Verret, Auteur ;
Mélanie Vachon, Auteur
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Type de document :
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Article : texte imprimé
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Dans :
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Qualitative health research (vol. 35, n° 3, mars 2025)
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Article en page(s) :
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pp. 291–304
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Langues :
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Anglais
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Catégories :
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CANCER
SEIN
EXPERIENCE
GUERRE
SURVIE
FEMME
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Résumé :
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"This study feeds into ongoing discussions on the metaphors used by cancer patients. Its aim is to explore how women living with a history of breast cancer use metaphors to express and interpret the experience of cancer remission. Data were collected in interviews designed to capture a rich and metaphorical description of participants’ experiences with breast cancer and what these experiences mean to them. Ten participants were recruited. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the participants’ narratives highlighted a central metaphor: the cancer trace in one’s life. The participants had to adapt to four specific traces of cancer: (1) the identity trace, (2) the existential trace, (3) the bodily trace, and (4) the narrative trace. We discuss how cancer challenges one’s sense of biographical continuity and initiates a search for a new way of being. We also discuss how the metaphor of the trace differs from the metaphor of the cancer hero living without any trace of cancer."
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Catalogueur :
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RESOdoc
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