Disruption, discontinuity and a licence to live: Responding to cancer diagnoses.

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dc.citation.volumeEarly View
dc.contributor.authorDew K
dc.contributor.authorChamberlain K
dc.contributor.authorEgan R
dc.contributor.authorBroom A
dc.contributor.authorDennett E
dc.contributor.authorCunningham C
dc.coverage.spatialEngland
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-01T22:01:52Z
dc.date.available2024-07-01T22:01:52Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-30
dc.description.abstractAlthough a diagnosis of a life-limiting cancer is likely to evoke emotions, such as fear, panic and anxiety, for some people it can also provide an opportunity to live life differently. This article is based on research undertaken in Aotearoa New Zealand on the topic of exceptional cancer trajectories. Eighty-one participants who had been identified as living with a cancer diagnosis longer than clinically expected were interviewed, along with 25 people identified by some of the participants as supporters in their journey. For some participants the diagnosis provided the opportunity to rethink their lives, to undertake lifestyle and consumption changes, to be culturally adventurous, to take up new skills, to quit work and to change relationships with others. The concepts of biographical disruption and posttraumatic growth are considered in relation to these accounts, and it is argued that the event of a cancer diagnosis can give license for people to breach social norms.
dc.description.confidentialfalse
dc.format.pagination1-16
dc.identifier.author-urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38813846
dc.identifier.citationDew K, Chamberlain K, Egan R, Broom A, Dennett E, Cunningham C. (2024). Disruption, discontinuity and a licence to live: Responding to cancer diagnoses.. Sociol Health Illn. Early View. (pp. 1-16).
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-9566.13797
dc.identifier.eissn1467-9566
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn0141-9889
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/70056
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness
dc.publisher.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.13797
dc.relation.isPartOfSociol Health Illn
dc.rights(c) 2024 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectbiographical disruption
dc.subjectbreaching norms
dc.subjectcancer survivorship
dc.subjectposttraumatic growth
dc.titleDisruption, discontinuity and a licence to live: Responding to cancer diagnoses.
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id489207
pubs.organisational-groupCollege of Health
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