Life stories of elderly women with cervical cancer

A Look Beyond Getting Sick

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4479893
AutoresNychole Moreira Costa (0000-0002-7354-7678, Secretaria Estadual de Saúde de Pernambuco, Brazil), Adriana Bezerra (0000-0002-5278-3727, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Keila Silene De Brito E Silva (0000-0002-0291-0708, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
Ano2021
Volume31
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhysis Revista de Saúde Coletiva (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0103-7331 • E-ISSN: 1809-4481
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0103-73312021310118
OpenAlexW3212901624
SCIELO_PIDS0103-73312021000100614
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas17

Chronic degenerative illnesses have currently taken on a great predominance at the epidemiological profile, by affecting specially the elderly population. Among such diseases, Cancer has been studied through the broadening of information, which brought scientific advancement for the disease care. However, such topics constantly focus on statistic data, setting the lifetime story of those people aside. This paper aimed at understanding the process of sickness among elderly women and its development up to the diagnostics of uterus cancer through getting closer to their lifetime stories. It is about a qualitative research whose methodology used was that of life history. The methodological choice aimed at providing an intersection in the lives of different women, giving visibility to their memories. Five elderly women between 62 and 89 years old participated in the research, which turns into distinctive lifetime stories, with their singularities, though they interweave before the hard reality faced by them along their aging. Their relationship with their getting-sick development is surrounded by fear into different ways. It is necessary, therefore, to look to the elderly women uniquely, regarding the social relations that interfere during their lives and determine their aging

Aside · Cancer · Cervical cancer · Disease · Elderly people · Population · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Statistic · Medicine · Palliative and Oncologic Care · Philosophy and Education Pedagogy · Psychology · Women's cancer prevention and management · Gerontology