ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2018
Portraying a grim illness: lung cancer in novels, poems, films, music, and paintings.
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- An exercise prescription for patients with lung cancer improves the quality of life, depression, and anxiety.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Writing cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Review
- Mainstreaming medical humanities in continuing professional development and postgraduate training.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2020Article
- Heart in art: cardiovascular diseases in novels, films, and paintings.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeWe studied how lung cancer is represented in five art genres: novels, poems, films, music, and paintings, in order to put lung cancer in a biopsychosocial perspective. The Common Sense Model is the theoretical basis: illness perceptions regarding lung cancer are examined in exemplars of the art genres.
methodsLiterature searches, websites, and personal files formed the database. They produced a fairly limited number of novels, poems, films, music pieces, and paintings with lung cancer as core element.
resultsA resigned, rather depressive response associated with great emotional turmoil to the diagnosis of lung cancer, its treatment and dismal outcome, figure rather prominently in the identified sources.
conclusionsLiving with lung cancer is scarcely portrayed in novels, poems, film, music, and paintings. When portrayed, a depressive and resigned attitude colors the illness perceptions. Elements from the Medical Humanities (e.g., expressive writing, photovoice, painting) deserve further study in order to examine whether they help improve the quality of life of patients with lung cancer.
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