You have cancer" - why do doctors avoid this word in communication with patients? Oncologist-surgeon of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for OMR named after him. N. N. Alexandrova Mikhail Barshevats: "In my practice, I try not to use the words "cancer" or "oncology". My colleagues and I, as a rule, say "disease", "tumor". Patients perceive information more softly in this way. And for example, if we tell the patient about the third or fourth stage of the disease, we also try not to say: "You have breast cancer in the third or fourth stage." I try to say: "You have breast disease. Watch the full episode of "I'm Inside".

You have cancer" - why do doctors avoid this word in communication with patients? Oncologist-surgeon of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for OMR named after him. N. N. Alexandrova Mikhail Barshevats: "In my practice, I try not to use the words "cancer" or "oncology". My colleagues and I, as a rule, say "disease", "tumor". Patients perceive information more softly in this way. And for example, if we tell the patient about the third or fourth stage of the disease, we also try not to say: "You have breast cancer in the third or fourth stage." I try to say: "You have breast disease. Watch the full episode of "I'm Inside".