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By comparison, another common metaphor, comparing cancer to a "journey" was "less likely to lead to feelings of guilt or failure". [10] In a study conducted in 2003 stated that patients using war-related terminology to describe their breast cancer had higher rates of depression and "poorer quality of life". [11]
Exciting new technologies can help the U.S. government win the war that it declared 50 years ago—but the very same government may be hampering progress. America first declared war on cancer half ...
Hala Dahdah Abou Jaber, co-founder of the Cancer Support Fund, said displaced cancer patients have to choose between basic necessities and life-threatening therapies and many can no longer co-pay ...
Now, with his mental and physical health in balance and being cared for, Mathison is also celebrating his new role as a game show host, helming the new Game Show Network series Beat the Bridge.
On the same day that Moonshot 2.0 was launched, the United Kingdom, a key ally and important research partner, launched their 2022 National War on Cancer . Specifically, the White House announced new goals outlining: Working together over the next 25 years, to will cut today's age-adjusted death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent.
Cancer patient treatment and studies were restricted to individual physicians' practices until World War II when medical research centres discovered that there were large international differences in disease incidence. This insight drove national public health bodies to enable the compilation of health data across practices and hospitals, a ...
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Illness as Metaphor was a response to Sontag's experiences as a cancer patient, as she noticed that the cultural myths surrounding cancer negatively affected her as a patient. She finds that, a decade later, cancer is no longer swathed in secrecy and shame, but has been replaced by AIDS as the disease most demonized by society.