Incorporation of the Cancer Moment in the Biographical History of Patients Suffering from Long-Term Breast Cancer [Metastasis, Recidivism, Additive Hormone Therapy]

This article is enacted by a qualitative research made in the IGR/Paris, on July & August 2008, regarding patients suffering from long breast cancer. By studying the moment of the incorporation of the reality of cancer disease in the biographical history of the patient lets us discover the changes in their world vision. Eventually, this will guide us through to the new forms of socialization of the subject. Besides psychological strategies of coping with chronic illness, the forms of social coping that we have elaborated by typification (idiosyncratic response, rhizomatic response, altruistic de subjectivation) are the expression of an original autism caused by the trauma of the announcement of cancer & the perspectives of life & death with cancer. We have further investigated the qualities of this autism so that we can say that socializing discourse of the patients is born in the grounds of this autism as a continuation in public of a silent dialogue. The elaborated strategies open the subject to her world & create the socializing vectors of reintegration. Adapted from the source document.