"Welcome to Cancerland"

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This paper analyzes Barbara Ehrenreich's article which expresses the opinion that cancer support groups and programs on breast cancer survivorship, instead of providing social support for cancer patients and victims, have instead created a 'cult' in which survival of, rather than finding a cure for, cancer is encouraged and propagated.

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"The author was critical of this issue, although her thesis did not surface in the initial part of her article. She had divided her discussion into three: the first part talked about the ordeal a woman had to go through after finding out that she has cancer; the second discussion centered on the social support groups that have been formed to accept one's victimization; and the last section provided a critical view of the 'kitschiness' of the rituals cancer patients and survivors have to go through. The organization helped readers reflect on the cult that is cancer survivorship, and clearly follow Ehrenreich's point of contention as she shifts her narrative from identification to antagonism from the very 'cult' that she had been assimilated for a short period of time."

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