The UnCancer: What is the Gleason 6 Type in Prostate Cancer?

At the first ever Active Surveillance Convention, a conference I attended back in 2007, many experts openly bemoaned that the word “CANCER” profoundly overstates the significance of Gleason 6 type of prostate cancer. The pathologists at the conference, however, shot down the idea of a name change saying, “Under the microscope it looks like a cancer, so it is cancer.” No one at the conference had a rebuttal so the proposal for a name change was dropped.  READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.verywell.com/the-uncancer-2782286

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