Should low-risk tumors still be called cancer?

Patients with low-risk cancers experience unnecessary psychological distress and overtreatment due to cancer terminology that doesn't reflect actual disease progression risk.

For decades, the word 'cancer' has carried a weight that science is no longer certain it deserves for every diagnosis. As early detection has pushed survival rates for some cancers to 98 percent, medical experts in Ireland and beyond are asking whether language itself has become a source of harm — driving fear and overtreatment for conditions that may never threaten a life. The debate over renaming low-risk tumours is, at its heart, a question about how human beings live with uncertainty, and whether the words we inherit from a darker era of medicine still serve us.

Should low-risk tumors still be called cancer?

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