Guité-Verret Alexandra, Vachon Mélanie
Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Réseau québécois de recherche en soins palliatifs et de fin de vie, Quebec, QC, Canada.
Qual Health Res. 2024 Aug 19;35(3):10497323241242054. doi: 10.1177/10497323241242054.
This study feeds into ongoing discussions on the metaphors used by cancer patients. Its aim is to explore how women living with a history of breast cancer use metaphors to express and interpret the experience of cancer remission. Data were collected in interviews designed to capture a rich and metaphorical description of participants' experiences with breast cancer and what these experiences mean to them. Ten participants were recruited. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the participants' narratives highlighted a central metaphor: the cancer trace in one's life. The participants had to adapt to four specific traces of cancer: (1) the identity trace, (2) the existential trace, (3) the bodily trace, and (4) the narrative trace. We discuss how cancer challenges one's sense of biographical continuity and initiates a search for a new way of being. We also discuss how the metaphor of the trace differs from the metaphor of the cancer hero living without any trace of cancer.
本研究为正在进行的关于癌症患者所使用隐喻的讨论提供了资料。其目的是探讨有乳腺癌病史的女性如何运用隐喻来表达和阐释癌症缓解的经历。数据收集于旨在获取参与者乳腺癌经历及其对参与者意义的丰富且具隐喻性描述的访谈之中。招募了十名参与者。对参与者叙述的解释现象学分析突出了一个核心隐喻：人生中的癌症痕迹。参与者必须适应癌症的四种特定痕迹：（1）身份痕迹，（2）生存痕迹，（3）身体痕迹，以及（4）叙事痕迹。我们讨论了癌症如何挑战一个人的生命历程连续性意识并引发对一种新的生存方式的探寻。我们还讨论了痕迹隐喻与毫无癌症痕迹的癌症英雄隐喻有何不同。
