Open AccessFinding my own voice through the breast cancer journey: humour, sadness and smurfs
Author(s) -
Lewis Sarah J.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of medical radiation sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2051-3909
pISSN - 2051-3895
DOI - 10.1002/jmrs.92
Subject(s) - sadness , cancer , breast cancer , computer science , medicine , anger , psychiatry
Finding your voice as a cancer patient can be hard, especially when you do not know what to say yourself. This article reveals a personal story of a diagnostic radiographer who thought she knew it all until she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Using humour and sadness as a scaffold for support, the voice of a young mother with cancer is heard within this paper.