Aleksandra Popadich Aleksandra Popadich

Should 'Cancer' Be Dropped From The Name of the Low Risk Lesions

The name 'Cancer' invokes so many emotions in every patient who hears this word.  Anything that they hear after that is in a fog of this emotion. Even us, doctors have the same reaction if we are faced with this diagnosis.  The best description that I could find about this is in the book "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi.

There are two examples where we have either changed the name or should be possibly thinking about the change.

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