Social late effects in pediatric cancer survivors
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v31i2.6343Keywords:
Childhood cancer, late effects, exclusion, grounded theory, qualitativeAbstract
Life changes without warning when a child is diagnosed with cancer: both at
the time of diagnosis and during the initial treatment. The safe, well-known
everyday life is being disturbed, and the patients lose their opportunity to
have a normal youth, either periodically or permanently. Childhood cancer
survivors narrate that their cancer survival is characterized by positive words to rhetorical symbolize that the individual has beaten cancer: a success or a
victory. Surviving cancer are rarely without physical, mental and social late
effects. The survival has an underexposed downside: the risk of a life with severe
late effects that is significant for the survivors and have great consequences
for their ability to be a part of and contribute to society.
This article present sub results from the empirical qualitative Ph.D.-project
Social Consequences of Childhood Cancer including qualitative interviews and
observational studies. The study exposes some of the social consequences of
childhood cancer that occur post-cancer based on the perspective of 23 survivors
(aged 18-39). In addition, Erwing Goffman's and Aaron Antonovskys
theories of stigma and performance, as well as other relevant research literature,
are used to discuss and substantiate the consequences caused by late
effects described by child cancer survivors.
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