El cáncer en el cine: Un recurso para los profesionales de la salud

Icart-Isern, M. Teresa; Rozas-Garcia, Maria Rosa; Sanfeliu-Cortes, V.; Viñas-Llebot, H.; Fernández-Ortega, M.P.; Icart, M.C.

doi:10.4321/s1575-18132009000500006

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“…This study also shows that Polish films focus on the biomedical aspects of cancer care but fail to portray the complexity of caring for cancer patients ( 32 , 33 , 35 , 37 ). In particular, although films tend to focus on highly aggressive types of cancer there is a significant absence of psycho-oncology and palliative care ( 32 , 35 , 37 ) which was suggested only in one film. For example in one of the most popular Polish cancer film: These Daughters of Mine psychotherapy is reduced to a short conversation with a psychiatrist who diagnoses one of the protagonist’s daughters with depressions and prescribes her antidepressants.…”

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“…The mortality rate among the patients portrayed in Polish cinema is also at odds with reality as it is much higher than in reality: in spite of the progress in the treatment of cancer in all the films cancer was explicitly associated with death ( 32 , 33 , 35 – 37 ). Thus, taking under consideration the scale of reception of such Polish cancer films as: Life, Above All , Chemo , Life Must Go On and These Daughters of Mine one can assume that they can reinforce the stereotype of cancer as an incurable and lethal disease ( 8 , 14 , 19 ).…”

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“…The image of cancer patients in films is also far from truthful, as films often prefer younger patients from the upper and upper or middle classes ( The Skylights , All Will Be Well , Life, Above All , Chemo , Life Must Go On ) ( 32 , 34 , 36 , 38 ). While filmmakers reinforce the stereotype that the patient fails to recover from cancer, cinema often presents cancer patients as weak and sickly, suffering from severe weight loss and unable to lead normal lives.…”

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Can popular films instil carcinophobia? Images of cancer in popular Polish cinema

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IntroductionAlthough cancer is currently considered a serious socio-medical challenge and health education in Poland has been positioned as a public health priority, the impact of popular culture on people’s ideas about cancer has been neglected. This study therefore aims to analyse the way popular Polish films portray cancer and the experience of cancer.Material and MethodsSeven popular Polish films featuring cancer were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The main categories included in the coding frame were disease, therapy, patient, physicians/oncologists and psychosocial issuses related to cancer.ResultsPolish films fail to provide the audience with basic information about the disease, its diagnoses and treatment and cancer is often represented as a mysterious disease with an unclear cause, an unpredictable and unsuccessful course of treatment, characterised by pain, suffering and inevitable death. Films may therefore instil carcinophobia. Since films accurately reflect problems of daily life faced by cancer patients and their families they have educational potential.ConclusionAlthough Polish films reinforce harmful stereotypes about cancer, its treatment, oncological institutions and specialists, cinema has the ability to raise the public’s and health professionals’ awareness regarding the psycho-social and emotional strains faced by cancer patients and the medical problems related to cancer.

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confidence: 87%

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Treating rare diseases with the cinema: Can popular movies enhance public understanding of rare diseases?

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2022

Orphanet J Rare Dis

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Background Rare diseases (RDs) constitute an important public health issue. However, although public awareness campaigns focus on the improvement of undergraduate and postgraduate education, also popular culture may serve as an educational tool in this field. This study aims to analyse how rare genetic diseases are depicted in popular movies. Methods Twenty popular movies on RDs were analysed quantitatively. The main categories included in the coding frame were: disease, patient, physician/scientist and psychosocial issuses related to RDs. Results The majority of movies do not contain adequate scientific information on RDs. Consequently, their cinematic image is either inaccurate or simplified. However, the cinema does take up some important topics in the field of RDs and highlight their ethical, psychosocial, legal or economic dimension: the diagnostic and therapeutic odyssey, the role of RD patients’ advocacy groups in the production of scientific knowledge, the problem of orphan drugs, the stigmatisation of and discrimination against RD patients, and the impact of diagnosis on one’s concept of self and parents’ feelings of guilt. Conclusion Although popular movies mostly focus on RD patients’ problems of daily living and rarely describe clinical aspects of RDs, they do have an educational potential. Thus, movies can help to raise the public’s awareness on the psychospocial and economic problems faced by RD patients and their families.

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El cáncer en el cine: Un recurso para los profesionales de la salud

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Can popular films instil carcinophobia? Images of cancer in popular Polish cinema

Can popular films instil carcinophobia? Images of cancer in popular Polish cinema

Treating rare diseases with the cinema: Can popular movies enhance public understanding of rare diseases?

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