Is it time to remove the cancer label from low-risk conditions?
- Written by Brooke Nickel, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
Many people associate the word cancer with major illness or death.Shutterstock
Over the past few decades, our understanding of cancer has changed. We now know some cancers don’t grow or grow so slowly that they’ll never cause medical problems.
But the way we label disease can harm. The use of more medicalised labels, including cancer,...
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