As whole genome sequencing is being considered as a tool to deliver expanded newborn
screening (NBS) globally, the range of equivocal results it could produce are gaining …

Background Motor neuron disease (MND)(also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a
life‐limiting neurodegenerative condition. In up to 20% of people with MND, a pathogenic …

Healthcare is increasingly datafied, and a wide range of actors—patients, clinicians,
administrators, policymakers, and industry lobbyists—want to be able to exchange and …

Cancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium,
when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving …

ABSTRACT COVID-testing was central to control the spread of infection in Denmark.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, we show that testing was not just a diagnostic sign; it …

Targeted screening programs for individuals with an increased risk for cancer have become
increasingly available. Patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN), rare genetic …

Care for chronic illness in clinical and everyday settings is relational and underpinned by
ethical dilemmas about kinship care responsibilities as much as it is about self-care …

As medical historian David Cantor (2007) has argued, aspirations of controlling cancer in
the twentieth century have come to embrace a medicalized notion of prevention that …

In May 2015, my mother was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer and passed away
three months later at the age of 78. Two years later, my older brother, only 53 at the time …

Cancer in itself is not incurable. It becomes incurable from the simple fact that its unfortunate
victims harbour and nurse their cancers till it is too late. It is not the disease which is …