Living (well) with cancer in the precision era
Surviving cancer in the precision era of targeted drugs and immunotherapies increasingly involves surviving-with malignancy. Against this backdrop of precision, innovation and chronicity, this paper offers a person-centred examination of some of the emerging intersections of chronic living and cance...
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| author | Alex Broom Katherine Kenny Leah Williams Veazey Alexander Page Barbara Prainsack Claire E. Wakefield Mustafa Khasraw Malinda Itchins Zarnie Lwin |
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| description | Surviving cancer in the precision era of targeted drugs and immunotherapies increasingly involves surviving-with malignancy. Against this backdrop of precision, innovation and chronicity, this paper offers a person-centred examination of some of the emerging intersections of chronic living and cancer treatment. Using a temporally extended qualitative methodology drawing on solicited diaries and successive in-depth interviews with people receiving precision cancer therapies, we focus on the often opaque worlds of surviving-with cancer, day-to-day, amidst the evolving scene of therapeutic innovation. Tracing how elements of the catastrophic and the mundane are braided through these everyday experiences, we seek to provide an embodied and temporally extended account of everyday life, beyond the binaries of presence/absence of disease, or of death/cure. In so doing, we consider how the normative expectations of treatment, bodies, care and emotions are being reshaped, elevating the moral work of the precision-cancer intersection. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68c09051be514ca49b23eb03ab20635a2022-12-22T04:41:09ZengElsevierSSM: Qualitative Research in Health2667-32152022-12-012100096Living (well) with cancer in the precision eraAlex Broom0Katherine Kenny1Leah Williams Veazey2Alexander Page3Barbara Prainsack4Claire E. Wakefield5Mustafa Khasraw6Malinda Itchins7Zarnie Lwin8Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia; Corresponding author.Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, AustraliaSydney Centre for Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, AustraliaSydney Centre for Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, AustraliaDepartment of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaSchool of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health, Randwick Clinical Campus, Discipline of Paediatrics, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Behavioural Sciences Unit, Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaDuke Cancer Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USANorthern Clinical School, University of Sydney, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia; Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, AustraliaDepartment of Medical Oncology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, AustraliaSurviving cancer in the precision era of targeted drugs and immunotherapies increasingly involves surviving-with malignancy. Against this backdrop of precision, innovation and chronicity, this paper offers a person-centred examination of some of the emerging intersections of chronic living and cancer treatment. Using a temporally extended qualitative methodology drawing on solicited diaries and successive in-depth interviews with people receiving precision cancer therapies, we focus on the often opaque worlds of surviving-with cancer, day-to-day, amidst the evolving scene of therapeutic innovation. Tracing how elements of the catastrophic and the mundane are braided through these everyday experiences, we seek to provide an embodied and temporally extended account of everyday life, beyond the binaries of presence/absence of disease, or of death/cure. In so doing, we consider how the normative expectations of treatment, bodies, care and emotions are being reshaped, elevating the moral work of the precision-cancer intersection.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321522000580Precision medicineCancerQualitativeDiariesSurvivorship |
| spellingShingle | Alex Broom Katherine Kenny Leah Williams Veazey Alexander Page Barbara Prainsack Claire E. Wakefield Mustafa Khasraw Malinda Itchins Zarnie Lwin Living (well) with cancer in the precision era SSM: Qualitative Research in Health Precision medicine Cancer Qualitative Diaries Survivorship |
| title | Living (well) with cancer in the precision era |
| title_full | Living (well) with cancer in the precision era |
| title_fullStr | Living (well) with cancer in the precision era |
| title_full_unstemmed | Living (well) with cancer in the precision era |
| title_short | Living (well) with cancer in the precision era |
| title_sort | living well with cancer in the precision era |
| topic | Precision medicine Cancer Qualitative Diaries Survivorship |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321522000580 |
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