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The Uncertain Presence: Experiences of Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer.
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- Exploring the experiences of women living with metastatic breast cancer [MBC]: A systematic review of qualitative evidence.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Watching you wear out: Time as clinical labor.Medical anthropology quarterly · 2026Article
- Exploring the lived experiences of women with metastatic breast cancer and their HRQoL questionnaire preferences: a qualitative study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Buying Time: Incurable Prognosis, Temporal Uncertainty and the Costs of Metastatic Breast Cancer.Sociology of health & illness · 2026Article
- Coexisting cancer regimes: Transformations of breast and lung cancer in the United Kingdom.Health (London, England : 1997) · 2024Article
- Evaluation of disparities in perceived healthcare discrimination amongWomen & health · 2023Article
- Differences in survivorship care experiences among older breast cancer survivors by clinical cancer characteristics, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors: A SEER-CAHPS study.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2023Article
- Relationship between Symptom Burden and HRQOL among Kuwaiti Women Recently Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2023Article
- The nebula of chronicity: dealing with metastatic breast cancer in the UK.Anthropology & medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Drawing from interviews with women with metastatic breast cancer in the UK and France, in this article I analyze uncertainties linked to this condition. In particular, I show how the impossibility of foreseeing the evolution of the condition, also as an indirect consequence of medical innovation, initiates an irreparable disruption of life after diagnosis. I further show how the lives of the patients are not only limited by the illness, but also by the difficulty of finding a place in society. I argue that such experiences are best understood through the concept of the
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