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Opinion | Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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Oh this is actual medicine.
I fully expected some fluff piece about using cancer metaphorically, but this is a pretty interesting piece about how the word cancer colors a patient's perception of risk and treatment approaches.
Sounds obvious when you read about it.
But changing the name of things is difficult…
At least here there’s a very good argument.