The article makes cancer survivorship the topic of an experiment in a form of writing we call dialogical response. First, in the style of autoethnography, each author presents an account of her or his long-term survivorship of cancer and the issues that involves. Less conventionally, we then respond each to the other’s story. The article seeks to contribute to an in-depth understanding of long-term cancer survivorship. More important, we offer it as an example of a form of writing rarely practiced in health research: speaking to those who participate in research, rather than speaking about those people. Among the multiple theoretical implications that could be explored, we consider Foucault’s concept of subjectification. Our argument is that recognising the discursive formulation of the subject can and should be complemented by recognition of the local, immediate dialogical formulation of subjects. Rather than presenting research findings about cancer survivors, we offer a performative enactment of survivorship as an ongoing process of dialogical exchange. We show ourselves, responding to each other, in the process of becoming the cancer survivors we are as a result of those responses.

这篇文章以一种我们称之为对话反应的写作形式将癌症幸存者作为实验的主题。首先，在自我民族志的风格中，每位作者都介绍了她或他的癌症长期生存情况以及所涉及的问题。不那么传统的是，我们会回应对方的故事。这篇文章旨在促进对长期癌症生存的深入了解。更重要的是，我们将其作为健康研究中很少采用的一种写作形式的示例：与参与研究的人交谈，而不是谈论那些人。在可以探索的多重理论含义中，我们考虑了福柯的主体化概念。我们的论点是，承认主体的话语表述可以而且应该通过承认主体的局部的、直接的对话表述来补充。我们不是展示关于癌症幸存者的研究结果，而是提供幸存者的表演性表演，作为一个持续的对话交流过程。由于这些反应，我们在成为癌症幸存者的过程中展示自己，相互回应。