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terminology
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If the risk is very low, should we still call it ‘cancer’?
'Cancer’ is the weightiest of words. Jacky remembers the impact those two short syllables had when she was given her results after tests for breast cancer. “I went into this little room and they told me that I had cancer…
Hero? Survivor? Using the right words matters, but it’s not always straightforward
A new survey of 1,871 people living with cancer in the UK and US has revealed significant differences in the terms that they would like to be used to describe themselves. Descriptive terms such as “victim,” “sufferer” and “cancer stricken”…