Breast cancer. A personal experience

• Main Author: María del Carmen Solano Ruiz
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Alicante 2012-06-01
• Series: Cultura de los Cuidados
• Subjects: Cáncer de mama; Historia de vida
• Online Access: https://culturacuidados.ua.es/article/view/2005-n18-cancer-de-mama-una-experiencia-personal

The present report shows a personal history of a 35-year-old woman, diagnosed of a breast cancer 2 years earlier. It expresses her own way of living her illness and the different processes she had submitted to fight against it. At the same time, her wish for life and her continuous positive behaviour not to consider herself as “a sick woman”, as well as her developing strategies to face desperate moments in her daily life. The use of life histories as a working technique in the data gathering could help nurse professionals to discover the personal and real meaning of such an illness, to deepen into the roots of different experiences and to articulate nursing strategies and ways addressed to lessen negative feelings in order to get better evolutions within the process of an illness. At the same time, these type of reports help the main character implied – “the protagonist” - to feel very well acquainted with all those other women undertaking the same sort of process.