Breast cancer has become a major cancer threatening women's health worldwide,and the study of health communication content related to breast cancer is of great significance to the physical and mental well-being of patients.Using the illness narrative of breast cancer patients on Xiaohongshu as the primary material,this study presents the features of illness narrative types on social media platforms from a narratological perspective.Breast cancer narratives on Xiaohongshu are mainly heroic narratives,detective narratives and quest narratives.Heroic narratives portray the patients as fighters bravely battling the disease in an explicit or implicit manner;detective narratives depict the process of patients exploring the mystery of the illness and treatment strategies while communicating with each other to seek help;and quest narratives present linear statements about the patients'experience of self-reconstruction.
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