• conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    Oh this is actual medicine.

    I fully expected some fluff piece about using cancer metaphorically, but this is a pretty interesting piece about how the word cancer colors a patient’s perception of risk and treatment approaches.

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      Sounds obvious when you read about it.

      But changing the name of things is difficult…

      At least here there’s a very good argument.