Doctors have rejected calls to drop the "cancer" label from low-risk diagnoses after Australian researchers called for a radical rethink of how patients are told about their disease...
It's the dreaded 'C' word which medical experts say can lead to unnecessary anxiety and unnecessary treatment. They're pushing for the label "cancer" to no longer be used when describing low-risk conditions.
The word “cancer” should be dropped from some medical diagnoses because the term can scare people into invasive treatments they do not need, Australian and US researchers say...
Australian researchers are calling for a radical overhaul of cancer diagnoses to reduce harmful overtreatment. Dropping the "cancer" label from low-risk conditions including localised prostate and "stage 0" breast cancers could protect many patients from unnecessary aggressive treatment and distress, researchers at the University of [...]