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September 5, 2024JAMA Oncology

Persons With Cancer Rather Than Cancer Patients—Semantics Matter

Frederic Ivan L. Ting

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This essay describes a physician’s shift to patient-focused language in treatment of patients with cancer.

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Frederic Ivan L. Ting (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e59445b6db64358752f3a4 https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.3642

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