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Narrative Approaches to Cancer Education: Striking the Right Tone

Narrative Approaches to Cancer Education: Striking the Right Tone Journal of Cancer Education (2022) 37:1577–1578 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-022-02226-z EDITORIAL John S. Luque Published online: 1 November 2022 © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to American Association for Cancer Education 2022 In the field of cancer education, whether working in patient “Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and education or cancer prevention, the cancer educator dis- the World,” Ehrenreich critiques breast cancer organizations cusses sensitive topics with either community members or and their corporate supporters for turning a blind eye to the patients. In the contemporary USA, when confronted with environmental causes of cancer following her breast cancer cancer-topics, such as survival chances or other potentially diagnosis [3]. As part of her research into the positive think- bad news (e.g., infertility or treatment side effects), a natural ing industry, Ehrenreich cites one study that improved 5-year response is to attempt to provide comfort that “things are not breast cancer survival rates for the period 2001 to 2006 all bad,” or where appropriate, even encourage the newly (82%) compared to 30 years earlier (52%) could be primar- diagnosed patient to draw from one’s spirituality. When ily attributed to improved cancer detection, improvements faced with a cancer diagnosis, a patient runs through a series http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Cancer Education Springer Journals

Narrative Approaches to Cancer Education: Striking the Right Tone

Journal of Cancer Education , Volume 37 (6) – Dec 1, 2022

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Copyright © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to American Association for Cancer Education 2022
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Journal of Cancer Education (2022) 37:1577–1578 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-022-02226-z EDITORIAL John S. Luque Published online: 1 November 2022 © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to American Association for Cancer Education 2022 In the field of cancer education, whether working in patient “Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and education or cancer prevention, the cancer educator dis- the World,” Ehrenreich critiques breast cancer organizations cusses sensitive topics with either community members or and their corporate supporters for turning a blind eye to the patients. In the contemporary USA, when confronted with environmental causes of cancer following her breast cancer cancer-topics, such as survival chances or other potentially diagnosis [3]. As part of her research into the positive think- bad news (e.g., infertility or treatment side effects), a natural ing industry, Ehrenreich cites one study that improved 5-year response is to attempt to provide comfort that “things are not breast cancer survival rates for the period 2001 to 2006 all bad,” or where appropriate, even encourage the newly (82%) compared to 30 years earlier (52%) could be primar- diagnosed patient to draw from one’s spirituality. When ily attributed to improved cancer detection, improvements faced with a cancer diagnosis, a patient runs through a series

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Published: Dec 1, 2022

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