Meaning of Breast Cancer in Women’s Discourse

Objective: To reveal the meaning of breast cancer. Materials and method: A narrative research study that selected, using snowball technique, 11 women (data saturation) diagnosed with cancer, on disease remission, living in region Florianópolis (Brazil). Semi-structured interviews were conducted between August December 2018, they subjected to Collective Subject Discourse technique. Four central ideas emerged from analysis narratives; this article presents ideal called “Meaning cancer diagnosis”, which has eight sense categories. Results: The idea covers following categories: “Suffering when facing “Fear death”, “Professional inability for bad news”, “Initiatives streamline treatment”, “Concern affection family members as a driving force face cancer”, “Difficulties members”, “Support members, professionals and/or support group”, “Faith spirituality”. Conclusions: discourse reveals diagnosis is linked need treatment, provided by faith, health team, groups, difficulties faced professionals. These results should imply provision specific Nursing care diagnostic phase until after remission/survival.