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Whose cancer? Visualising the distribution of mentions to cancer sites on instagram Varela Rodríguez, Miguel Vicente Mariño, Miguel This article presents a quantitative analysis of mentions to cancer on Instagram. Using thousands of images with cancer-related hashtags, we build several visualisations to capture their distribution. Source images are clustered by their visual traits and by the incidence, prevalence, and mortality of the cancer site they refer to. Our goal is three-fold: to provide a quantitative basis for future research on the representation of cancer online; to offer an interpretation of the sources of the imbalanced representation of the different cancer sites; and to motivate a debate on how that representation may affect patients and families. 2024-02-09T09:05:24Z 2024-02-09T09:05:24Z 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, 2022, vol. 45, n. 1, p. 26-42. 1745-3054 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66065 10.1080/17453054.2021.1964356 26 1 42 Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 45 1745-3062 eng https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17453054.2021.1964356 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Taylor and Francis SI