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Opinion | Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer

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Opinion | Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer

www.nytimes.com

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Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

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Calling something cancer can lead to aggressive treatment even if the cancer in question is unlikely to cause problems.

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Lot of metaphorical cancer out there, but the article was about real, but arguably mislabeled stages of what could develop into cancer.

Highly worth reading.

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