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While serious illness is a crisis in the life course of any human being, it harmonizes particularly poorly with traditional notions masculinity. Statistically, more men than women get cancer, but seem likely to communicate about their emotions and experiences public. In this article, we examine connection between cancer narratives, war combat metaphors hegemonic masculinity based on six recent Danish autobiographies written by experience having cancer. Based within critical theories metaphor theory, how apply develop argue that new narratives (counter) are developed they influence both understanding