While improvements in cancer screening have had overwhelmingly positive effects, when the word ‘cancer’ is applied too liberally to cell abnormalities, clinicians risk harming patients both mentally and physically, writes the urologist Matthew R Cooperberg
buff.lyWe need a better way to describe what is often called ‘cancer’ | Aeon EssaysA cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label
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