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How Calling Cancer a 'Fight' or 'Battle' Can Harm Patients War metaphors can lead to feelings of guilt and failure

The list includes chemotherapy cures for advanced Hodgkin lymphoma and testicular cancer; the HPV vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer; targeted therapies for CML; and effective drugs to combat nausea and vomiting. We will keep making progress as long as the nation supports cancer research. Will we step up to maintain or even increase funding to meet researchers' needs?

ASCO 50th Anniversary Poll Names the Top 5 Advances from the Past 50 Years | ASCO.org Results Released Ahead of the “Rally for Medical Research” on Capitol Hill, September 18th – New Cancer Research Funding Urgently Needed FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:September 17, 2014Contact: Kirsten [email protected] The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) today anno…