'Out of the frying pan into the fire': a qualitative study of the impact on masculinity for men living with advanced prostate cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies have highlighted how advanced prostate cancer causes biographical disruption and presents challenges to masculine identities for men. This article draws on a wider study that focused on the experiences of men living with advanced prostate cancer and their caregivers. Although men's experience of advanced illness is not overlooked in the literature, only a small body of work has taken an in-depth look at men's experiences with advanced prostate cancer and their caregivers in a non-Westernised cultural and social context.

Objective

To explore how advanced prostate cancer impacts on men's masculine identity from the perspective of patients and their caregivers.

Methods

A qualitative study of men living with advanced prostate cancer (n = 23) and

SUBMITTER: Salifu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10230602 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature