There is a simple solution to this problem: don’t call it cancer. I think the name DCIS exists for partly for this reason, although the C standing for carcinoma isn’t helping. There are many specific proposals for certain grades of cancer to be called hyperplasia or adenoma, entirely for this reason, but I don’t think they’ve caught on.
There is a simple solution to this problem: don’t call it cancer. I think the name DCIS exists for partly for this reason, although the C standing for carcinoma isn’t helping. There are many specific proposals for certain grades of cancer to be called hyperplasia or adenoma, entirely for this reason, but I don’t think they’ve caught on.