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A deep dive into cancer: in the media, in language, and in our mind's eye. (episode)
Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, charts cancer’s 2,500 year history.
The latest cancer cures, fundraising campaigns, and miraculous survival stories are ubiquitous in the news— but cancer coverage rarely reflects real-world cancer incidence rates.
A rare muscle cancer made David Grover sick—and famous—when he was just a kid. But then the media moved on.
We tend to describe cancer with war metaphors: “battling” the disease, winning the “fight.” But this war language might actually be distorting how we think about cancer prevention.
Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be like entering a foreign land where you don't speak the language.