Doctors should avoid saying ‘cancer’ for minor lesions – study

Low and intermediate-grade breast cancers, small thyroid cancers and localised prostate cancer would be better monitored than treated aggressively, doctors say.The word “cancer” should be dropped from some medical diagnoses because the term can scare people into invasive treatments they do not need, Australian and US researchers say.An analysis published by the British Medical Journal on Monday described “cancer” as particularly problematic when used to describe some thyr