ReviewSociology of health & illness2018
The sociology of cancer: a decade of research.
Review in Sociology of health & illness, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Temporal Misalignment and Unequal Agency: What Terminal Cancer Patients Teach Us about Time and Inequality.American sociological review · 2026Article
- Exploring Narrative and Coping Strategies of Osteosarcoma Survivors in China: A Qualitative Study.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Coexisting cancer regimes: Transformations of breast and lung cancer in the United Kingdom.Health (London, England : 1997) · 2024Article
- "We Need to Go Back Home (to) the Philippines Healthy": An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Migrant Domestic Workers' Experiences of Having Breast Cancer in Hong Kong.Qualitative health research · 2024Article
- A Discourse of Deviance: Blame, Shame, Stigma and the Social Construction of Head and Neck Cancer.Qualitative health research · 2024Article
- Determining the Research Priorities for Adult Primary Brain Tumours in Australia and New Zealand: A Delphi Study with Consumers, Health Professionals, and Researchers.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Article
- "It's personalized, but it's still bucket based": The promise of personalized medicine vs. the reality of genomic risk stratification in a breast cancer screening trial.New genetics and society · 2022Article
- Experiencing Cancer. An Ethnographic Study on Illness and Disease.Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte der Krebsforschung. Progres dans les recherches sur le cancer · 2021Article
- Referencing BRCA in hereditary cancer risk discussions: In search of an anchor in a sea of uncertainty.Journal of genetic counseling · 2020Article
- The convivial and the pastoral in patient-doctor relationships: a multi-country study of patient stories of care, choice and medical authority in cancer diagnostic processes.Sociology of health & illness · 2020Article
- Evaluation of a complex integrated, cross-sectoral psycho-oncological care program (isPO): a mixed-methods study protocol.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Stable, fragile and recreated - a qualitative study of agency in everyday life with breast and prostate cancer.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2019Article
- Dietary responses to a multiple sclerosis diagnosis: a qualitative study.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Article
- Beyond fatalism: Information overload as a mechanism to understand health disparities.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Biomedicine is often presented as the driving force behind improvements in cancer care, with genomics the latest innovation poised to change the meaning, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and lived experience of cancer. Reviewing sociological analyses of a diversity of patient and practitioner experiences and accounts of cancer during the last decade (2007-17), we explore the experiences of, approaches to and understandings of cancer in this period. We identify three key areas of focus: (i) cancer patient experiences and identities; (ii) cancer risk and responsibilities and (iii) bioclinical collectives. We explore these sociological studies of societal and biomedical developments and how sociologists have sought to influence developments in cancer identities, care and research. We end by suggesting that we extend our understanding of innovations in the fields of cancer research to take better account of these wider social and cultural innovations, together with patients, activists' and sociologists' contributions therein.
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