Cancer and its inexorable relation with death: an analysis of the connection between its incidence and the information acquired in the society of the 21st century.

Abstract

One of the main health challenges is disease prevention. In the information society, there is a great possibility of managing knowledge about cancer preventive care; however, the initiatives have been subject to an epistemic triangle proposed by this research: death, incidence, and projected information. The present study shows the relationship of these three aspects from the content analysis of their incidence in Guerrero and a survey applied to a representative sample of the population. The results describe the way in which these three elements interact to configure a social construct of cancer as part of an uncertain and inevitable destiny under a near-death gaze.