ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some less documented, and perhaps more unsettling, aspects of cancer survivorship. Survivorship emerges from social fabric, articulating modern sense of mastery over affliction, medical successes in delaying death and slowing ageing, and our dread of our inevitable demise. The chapter presents survivorship, of and with advanced cancer, as an assemblage of medical, alternative and cultural knowledge and practices; bodies, technologies and the somatic; and, emotions and feelings, recognising that these factors are necessarily intertwined. It focuses on several studies led by Broom in 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2011-2014 and 2015-present. The participants' dilemmas around survivorship first emerged in their interactions with their oncologist or treating doctor. Restlessness has been thoroughly 'explained' in the medical literature; and has been constructed as a normal facet of the dying process. An important facet of restlessness was not the underlying wondering of the participants about when their 'time was up' but fears around how this would be received by others around them.
