The incurable metastatic breast cancer experience through metaphors: the fight and the unveiling.

Abstract:

:Purpose: War metaphors are omnipresent in public and medical discourse on cancer . If some studies suggest that cancer patients may view their experiences as afight, few studies focus on the metaphors that patients create from their subjective experiences. The aim was to better understand the experience of four women with incurabale metastatic breast cancer from the metaphors they used in personal cancer blogs.Methods: An interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to analyze these women's experience and metaphors of cancer.Results: Two metaphors carried the meaning of metastatic breast cancer experience: the fight and the unveiling. The results show that the war metaphor had a unique meaning for the bloggers who lived with incurable breast cancer: they revealed the difficulty of fighting cancer and eventually collapsing in battle, although a renewed look at life had developed in parallel to their struggle. The bloggers thus tried to lift the veil on this complex experience.Conclusion: The results highlight the need for women with metastatic breast cancer to be able to tell and share their experience in a supportive context and to reinvest the war metaphor in order to express themselves in a more authentic way.

authors

Guité-Verret A,Vachon M

doi

10.1080/17482631.2021.1971597

keywords:

["Metastatic breast cancer","authenticity","blog","cancer experience","end-of-life","interpretative phenomenological analysis","metaphor","suffering","war metaphor"]

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2021-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1971597

issue

1

eissn

1748-2623

issn

1748-2631

journal_volume

16

pub_type

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