International cancer expert calls for low-risk cancers to be renamed less scary – Jan 24, 2019



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California researcher Laura Esserman has written in the British Medical Journal, proposing a name change for thyroid, prostate and bad cancer.

Esserman says that modern screening programs have led to over-detection of cancer.

She says treating people who are not dying to death "does not improve the lives of those at greatest risk."

Dr. Murali Varma of the University Hospital of Wales wrote in the same newspaper, saying that a name change would create confusion.

He says it's unclear whether a low-risk tumor could possibly become high-risk.

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