Illness in Media, Art, and Literature

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How is cancer communicated and portrayed? From TV shows, books, poems, essays, movies, to paintings and sculptures, how is meaning created through media?

“Roses Trémières” by Berthe Morisot
Sarah Mills, a colon cancer survivor, poses as famous figures in photoshoots that feature her stoma bag (due to a colostomy).
“In the Bois de Boulogne” by Berthe Morisot
“Things I wanted to tell you- Mark and Aliza Ainis at The Dead Sea”, done by Ofer Katz
“Young Woman in Mauve” by Berthe Morisot
Artistic rendering of tumor growing in a colon, by Sarah Field Sonnenberg.
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