Women told they have breast 'cancer' more likely to want surgery
Friday, August 30, 2013 - 00:00
in Health & Medicine
Women were more likely to want surgery when they were told they had a type of breast cancer than when the diagnosis was a breast lesion or a group of abnormal cells — even though all three scenarios described the same disease. The findings, reported Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, offer a new way to gauge the power of the word “cancer.”