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- Title
La laryngectomie totale ou la métamorphose identitaire.
- Authors
Babin, Emmanuel; Edy, Eric; Béquignon, Arnaud; Hitier, Martin
- Abstract
Objective: To examine personal and social identity transformations that occur over time among patients treated for laryngeal carcinoma with total laryngectomy. Method: Patients with laryngectomy and their family underwent interviews by a sociologist and a head and neck surgeon. Results: The diagnosis of cancer fills the patient's mind with images of suffering and death. Their life trajectory is more often a downward spiral. Patients are so stigmatized by the neoplasic illness that they become marginal and live in social isolation. Conclusion: Being laryngectomized completely transforms patients' lives because this surgery induces their topple into the world of the disabled. Total laryngectomy has a negative connotation in our society. Therapists should take this reality into account and intensify their involvement before and especially after surgery.
- Subjects
CANCER patients; CANCER treatment; LARYNGEAL cancer; LARYNGECTOMY; CANCER diagnosis; SOCIAL isolation
- Publication
Journal of Otolaryngology -- Head & Neck Surgery, 2008, Vol 37, Issue 4, p495
- ISSN
0707-7270
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2310/7070.2008.0094