Being diagnosed with a life-limiting illness entails a fundamental reshaping of one's relationship with the future. From ‘bucket lists’ of destinations and experiences to ‘flights of hope’ for experimental or specialised medical care, diagnoses of serious illness are deeply entwined with travel in Australian cultural narratives. In this paper, we draw on a thematic analysis of interviews with cancer patients and their carers to ask what meanings are attached to narratives of travel – whether completed or constrained, imagined or interrupted – in the context of a cancer diagnosis. Focusing on narratives of travel draws attention to themes of disruption, resilience, autonomy and living a meaningful life within the precarious timescape of cancer. Through this analysis of time and travel, we examine how normative expectations of how to live with or beyond cancer can produce tensions, particularly in the uncertain but precariously hopeful landscape of precision cancer treatments.

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“当你不能旅行时，就很难拥有未来”：癌症诊断后的意义、流动性和死亡率

被诊断出患有限制生命的疾病需要从根本上重塑一个人与未来的关系。从目的地和经历的“愿望清单”到实验或专业医疗护理的“希望飞行”，严重疾病的诊断与澳大利亚文化叙事中的旅行紧密相连。在本文中，我们对癌症患者及其护理人员的访谈进行了主题分析，询问在癌症诊断的背景下，旅行的叙述（无论是完成的还是受限的、想象的还是中断的）具有什么意义。关注旅行的叙事会引起人们对破坏、恢复力、自主性以及在癌症不稳定的时间景观中过有意义的生活等主题的关注。通过对时间和旅行的分析，我们研究了如何与癌症一起生活或超越癌症的规范期望如何产生紧张，特别是在精准癌症治疗的不确定但充满希望的前景中。