The first session of the permanent Seminar on Science with and for Society was held on June 6 on “Cancers, stories and objects of resistant women: oncological disease between society, art (s) and science (s)”, with Susana de Noronha. In this session, Susana de Noronha presented a research series about women, cancer narratives, art and material culture, conducted between 2005 and 2017.