“We do ourselves a disservice when diagnoses as wildly different as a grade 4 glioblastoma multiforme (a brain tumour that is virtually 100% fatal) and prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (a prostate condition more likely to make you pee frequently than to kill you) are both described as cancer.”
So claims a thoughtful Globe and Mail reflection called Can the Word ‘Cancer’ Be More Harmful Than the Disease? by health columnist André Picard. It’s all about the power of words – and particularly the C-word. Continue reading
It’s back-to-school time, warn the editors at Consumer Reports, and that means it’s time to answer an annual question:
According to a trio of widely published American researchers, many of us are “over-diagnosed” by being labelled with a medical condition that will 
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