Abstract
Ensuring comprehensive health care for women with cervical-uterine cancer remains a challenge for public health, although evidence of the established policies, practices and knowledge in shaping of cancer care networks. This study focused on the need to deepen in the micropolitics of care experiments to know the nuances of the investigated phenomenon. Based on the theoretical and methodological approach of Deleuze and Guattari, it aimed to map the composition lines of cancer care production in the city of São Luis-MA, Brazil, using the network of the guide-user Luiza as a device. Twenty-eight participants were investigated through in-depth interviews and conversation groups. As a result, a vulnerable, fragmented, centralized network of biomedical care was designed, with a hospital that welcomes demands of the disease, and primary care that abandons prevention and health promotion. The importance of knowing women with cancer linked to the community, religiosity and family ties is highlighted. Having cancer changed Luiza's life and required connections beyond the biomedical sphere. This cartography calls for the perception of narrowing in the production of cancer care networks, inviting the breaking of techno-assistance walls and creating confrontations focused on health promotion and quality of life.
Keywords:
cervical-uterine cancer; care; micropolitics; cartography; healthcare networks