More on The Language of Cancer …. The Language of Respect! Earlier this year AnCan ran a couple of webinars on The Language of Cancer – please search on this page under ‘Language’ and you’ll find links to the earlier webinars and articles.
We at AnCan think that the language used when the medical world interfaces with patients could certainly use some improvement – and not just w.r.t. to cancer. In preparing for our second webinar, I ran across an excellent discussion on Medscape. Dr. Tatiana Prowell was one of the participants, and she has just proposed guidelines for how the medical community should refer to patients – and to each other, for the upcoming 2020 ASCO sessions. Unfortunately I could not figure how to download other than in photo format that I am inserting below and hope you can download and enlarge! Failing that, read it on Twitter https://twitter.com/tmprowell/status/1197543809594351616 .
We at AnCan endorse Dr. T’s recommendations ….. patients don’t fail treatments; treatments fail patients!
