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TORRES LUZON, Cristina. Cancer and adolescence in the one hospital context: A vision by means of the movie Planta 4ª. Index Enferm [online]. 2006, vol.15, n.55, pp.65-70. ISSN 1699-5988.

The cinema tend to visualize reflections of the society, daily situations have made impact on the spectators to convey their specified outlook of the reality. Information that can be excellent as analysis and reflection object. The aims of this work has been to investigate in the histories associated to the cancer in the adolescents inside the hospital context by means of the analysis descriptive -interpretive of the movie "Planta 4ª". "Planta 4ª" show the fight for the survival and the confrontation strategies before the cancer of a group of adolescents hospitalized in a hospital. The leisure, the information, the affective relationships, the illness, the death, the friendship, the relationship with the professionals, the adolescence, the relationships of power, etc. are a few of the emergent categories after the analysis of the movie. This analysis becomes a good source of information on the image that the society has before certain situations of health and illness.