We explored working and living with cancer at a large research-intensive National Health
Service hospital breast cancer service and adjoining non-governmental organisation (NGO) …

Cancer is a dreaded disease. The ready availability of professionals and treatments
designed to fight cancer1 support its categorization as a 'legitimate'illness. So what could …

What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Personalised cancer medicine explores
this question by foregrounding the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners in the …

Cancer patients are now combining complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) with
biomedical cancer treatments, reflecting an increasingly pluralistic health care environment …

Approaching cancer presence in everyday life as mythologies, the paper unfolds what
cancer is and how cancer potentialities are enacted and embodied in the context of …

Biomedicine is often presented as the driving force behind improvements in cancer care,
with genomics the latest innovation poised to change the meaning, diagnosis, treatment …

What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Drawing on an ethnographic study with
cancer patients, carers and practitioners in the UK, this book traces their efforts to access …

Disease stratification practices have long been used as a means to produce and make
sense of cancer, distinguishing 'types', tumour development stages, and even patients' …

This Review essay seeks to interrogate the vast category of 'cancer'. Taken together, the
three books explored here pluralise cancer, locating it not just in organs and bodies but also …

Medical encounters–while often viewed as centred on conveying clinical knowledge–are
also sites of emotion and for exerting emotional labour by healthcare professionals. The …