The Body in the Mirror: Breast Cancer, Liminality and Borderlands

Schwartz, Norah Anita; Glascoe, Christine Alysse von

doi:10.1080/01459740.2020.1775220

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“…They felt unable to communicate these to some key others because of expectations imposed upon the young women about cancer survivorship. This left them feeling isolated and disempowered 9/10 (F) Schwartz & von Glascoe 2021 [ 110 ] USA (at the USA-Mexico border) Explore what is it like to have BCin women who have had a lumpectomy or lost one or both breasts Qualitative 8 Body image 1. Life on the border: accessing US care because it is better but without English skills and as a rural community, delayed diagnosis and treatment; 2.…”

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Psychosocial experiences of breast cancer survivors: a meta-review

Butow

Giunta

et al. 2023

J Cancer Surviv

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Purpose Advances in breast cancer care have led to a high rate of survivorship. This meta-review (systematic review of reviews) assesses and synthesises the voluminous qualitative survivorship evidence-base, providing a comprehensive overview of the main themes regarding breast cancer survivorship experiences, and areas requiring further investigation. Methods Sixteen breast cancer reviews identified by a previous mixed cancer survivorship meta-review were included, with additional reviews published between 1998 and 2020, and primary papers published after the last comprehensive systematic review between 2018 and 2020, identified via database searches (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO). Quality was assessed using the Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklist for Systematic Reviews and the CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme Qualitative) checklist for primary studies. A meta-ethnographic approach was used to synthesise data. Results Of 1673 review titles retrieved, 9 additional reviews were eligible (25 reviews included in total). Additionally, 76 individual papers were eligible from 2273 unique papers. Reviews and studies commonly focused on specific survivorship groups (including those from ethnic minorities, younger/older, or with metastatic/advanced disease), and topics (including return to work). Eight themes emerged: (1) Ongoing impact and search for normalcy, (2) Uncertainty, (3) Identity: Loss and change, (4) Isolation and being misunderstood, (5) Posttraumatic growth, (6) Return to work, (7) Quality of care, and (8) Support needs and coping strategies. Conclusions Breast cancer survivors continue to face challenges and require interventions to address these. Implications for Cancer Survivors. Breast cancer survivors may need to prepare for ongoing psychosocial challenges in survivorship and proactively seek support to overcome these.

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Psychosocial experiences of breast cancer survivors: a meta-review

Butow

Giunta

et al. 2023

J Cancer Surviv

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“…The discussions on biographical renewal in cancer survivorship research are only superficial. [ 8 - 10 ] Being involved in the process of biographical renewal can have major benefits by significantly improving survivors’ quality of life. Encouraging survivors to engage in this process may help them feel liberated from the long-term effects and focus on personal growth.…”

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Biographical Renewal and its Facilitators in Cancer Survivorship: A Conceptual Paper

Jadhav,

Azeez

2024

IJPC

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Experiencing cancer impinges life in several ways. Research on the biographical implications of cancer has focused on its disruptive nature. Biographical renewal is not given full attention despite existing literature on positive transformations after cancer. This conceptual paper presents an account of biographical renewal in the milieu of cancer survivorship. Further, we discussed some crucial facilitators that promote the biographical renewal. Caregivers may consider biographical renewal as a substantially new goal in the survivorship care plan to improve patients’ quality of life. The discussion is designed to foster an understanding of biographical renewal for the psychosocial practice by professionals with cancer patients, survivors, and their caregivers – formal and informal, to provide comprehensive care during cancer survivorship. Implications for palliative care are also discussed.

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“…There are well-established links between stress and low birth rates, which disproportionately affect Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women (Ibid). In their research on Hispanic women with breast cancer, Schwartz and von Glascoe (2021) show that this group experience later diagnosis and higher mortality, and may also have to navigate an unfamiliar health system, their own undocumented status, and other challenges. As Perret's article in this issue illuminates, it is not only human health at stake at the US-Mexico border, but a much broader ecological web.…”

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Borders and Borderlands: (Re)negotiating biomedicine, belonging, and nation

Meher¹,

Herbst²,

Appleton³

et al. 2022

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This special issue takes as its primary theoretical touchstone cultural, queer, and feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa's La Frontera (2007), a text that interrogated Anzaldúa's own 'mestiza consciousness' to theorise the multiplying and hybridising potential of the US-Mexico borderlands and the various forms of living that emerged within. Though her writing was always critically and politically engaged, resistance, for Anzaldúa, was not enough, too mired in an opposition defined by the oppressor. 'Th[at] counterstance, ' she wrote, is 'a step towards liberation from cultural domination. But it is not a way of life' (Anzaldúa 2007, 78). Instead, she turned attention to the unpredictable, emergent possibilities that take shape in the borderlands, born out of an embrace of ambiguity. For Anzaldúa, it is precisely the state of being caught between worlds that creates the conditions of possibility for alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and existing. Although hers was a heavily psychologised rendering, subsequent developments by feminist scholars have further filled in the social and political potential of the borderlands concept (Icaza 2020; Lugones 1992). Feminist philosopher Maria Lugones offers a particularly rich extension of Anzaldúa's writing, highlighting how acts of resistance from the borderlands, if seen as processual, become parts of a greater collective movement for change. It is thus both Alzaldua's theory of the borderlands, and the conversations it has provoked, that provides the conceptual orientation for this special issue of Sites.When the four of us gathered in May of 2019 to coordinate that year's Somaa (Society of Medical Anthropology of Aotearoa) symposium, we sought a theme that could explore the porosity of bodies -biological, institutional, geographic, and otherwise -and engage with their unsettled, transitional nature. Anzaldúa's

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The Body in the Mirror: Breast Cancer, Liminality and Borderlands

Cited by 10 publications

References 42 publications

Psychosocial experiences of breast cancer survivors: a meta-review

Psychosocial experiences of breast cancer survivors: a meta-review

Biographical Renewal and its Facilitators in Cancer Survivorship: A Conceptual Paper

Borders and Borderlands: (Re)negotiating biomedicine, belonging, and nation

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