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Item“It just keeps hurting”: Continuums of violence and their impact on cervical cancer mortality in Argentina.(UCL Press, 2023)Focusing on cervical cancer, in this chapter we examine the structural and cultural drivers of health inequalities experienced in the everyday social worlds of persistently poor Argentinian women and how these contribute to increased probability of cancer death.
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ItemIntersections of stigma, morality and care: Indonesian women’s negotiations of cervical cancer(UCL Press, 2023)Our first encounter with cervical cancer stigma in Indonesia was during a preliminary field trip in 2018 when we visited stakeholders engaged in cancer prevention and care. As we sat in a circle at a community-based cancer organisation (cancer CBO), drinking sweet tea and sharing snacks, we began the process of getting to know one another and our involvement in cancer advocacy and research. For many women, this involved telling their own cancer stories.
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ItemCancer ethnographies and the politics of care(UCL Press, 2023)In recent decades, growing attention has been paid to what is described as an ‘epidemic’ of cancer, the term used to reflect recorded increases in diagnosis, severe illness and mortality. It is likely, too, that with the increased longevity of populations worldwide, there is a rise in absolute incidence. Cancers develop with age, reflecting the slow development of many cancers, the accrued effects of exposure to carcinogens and infections and the decreased capacity of the body to eliminate damaged DNA. Increased visibility also reflects changes in technology and health systems that have resulted in improved diagnosis and reporting. Given this mix of circumstances, the language of epidemic is perhaps misplaced. But the rhetoric reflects growing awareness of the pervasiveness of multiple related diseases of organs, tissues, cell type, forms and progress. It’s an explosion, an epidemic, of understanding cancer’s complexity, its differences and the diverse populations who are affected. There are vast discrepancies in cancer prevalence, survival rates and responses between countries in the global south and global north, with disparities that reinforce the need to theorise cancer in local and global perspectives.