Experts stop calling cancer cancer

The Dhaka Times Desk Scientists from the Advisory Committee of the National Cancer Institute recently published an article on the deadly cancer in the Journal of Medicine published by the American Medical Association, which has already sparked widespread discussion. In that article, scientists advised not to declare all cancers found in the patient's body as 'cancer'. They suggested defining cancer only as cancer cells or lesions that are likely to die if treated.

American oncologists used their experience to reach this conclusion. At various times as doctors, they have seen patients go ahead for surgery even after finding benign non-growing cancer cells. The word 'cancer' causes anxiety and drives them to the operating room, even though most of the time they didn't need the surgery at all.

ন্যাশনাল ক্যান্সার ইনস্টিটিউটের উপদেষ্টা কমিটিতে থাকা আমেরিকার শীর্ষস্থানীয় সব ক্যান্সারবিদদের মধ্যে সংগঠনটির প্রধান মেডিকেল অফিসার ডাঃ ওটিস ব্রাউলি বলেন, “১৮৫০ সালে জার্মান প্যাথোলজিস্ট্ররা যে ক্যান্সারের যে শ্রেণীকরণ করেছেন, এখন তাকে আবার ঢেলে সাজানো প্রয়োজন।”

And so he suggested that cancer-causing cells that are not growing fast or not growing at all are not 'cancer' but rather 'idle', i.e. idle. Because the cells grow very slowly, the scientists named them 'Idols' instead of cancer.

References: USA Today