Table 2.

Cases' views

Family and Gender

"...when he heard that I had a cancer, that they were going to take out my womb, he took it very badly, perhaps from its negative side, he became distant and stopped providing any moral or financial support". P14: case4.txt (177:181).

"...because, you see, I felt embarrassed, because I felt a bit more inhibited, as if I were ashamed, but later, well, when I had my children, one of them told me: -Mother, you live in the Stone Ages, you must forget about those things, don't think the doctors are going to see only you, they see a lot of people – that's how I started going for my PAP examination". P13: case3.txt (242:249).

"I think that a husband can't stand a sick wife, isn't that so? Because they have to have [intercourse] relations and I feel sad sometimes because sometimes I think he is going to trade me for another woman, for a good one". P17: case7.txt (188:192).

"...he said that I was no good as a woman because I never got pregnant, now with this (CC), he left me more easily". P14: case4.txt (254:260).