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Patients perceive treatment to be more difficult when it is described to them using violent metaphors. [6] These metaphors can also lead to feelings of disempowerment, guilt, and fatalism. [6] One study found that the use of war metaphors in cancer public health decreased engagement in cancer prevention behaviors. [13]
She does not mention her personal experience with cancer in the work, but she addresses it in her related 1988 work, AIDS and Its Metaphors. At the time that Sontag was writing, the fad in alternative cancer treatment was psychotherapy for the patient's supposed "cancer personality". According to these proponents, patients brought cancer upon ...
Cancer prevention is the practice of taking active measures to decrease the incidence of cancer and mortality. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The practice of prevention depends on both individual efforts to improve lifestyle and seek preventive screening , and socioeconomic or public policy related to cancer prevention. [ 3 ]
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Illness as Metaphor was a response to Sontag's experiences as a cancer patient, as she noticed that the cultural myths surrounding cancer negatively affected her as a patient. She finds that, a decade later, cancer is no longer swathed in secrecy and shame, but has been replaced by AIDS as the disease most demonized by society.
Kate Middleton announced today she is finished with her chemotherapy treatment and cancer free, sharing the news in a three minute long video (watch above) filmed in Norfolk last month. "Despite ...
Despite significant progress in the treatment of certain forms of cancer (such as childhood leukemia [2]), cancer in general remains a major cause of death half a century after this war on cancer began, [3] leading to a perceived lack of progress [4] [5] [6] and to new legislation aimed at augmenting the original National Cancer Act of 1971.