Cancer care beyond medicine: The psycho-social perspective

In the field of biomedicine, cancer is described as an abnormal growth, characterized by the ability to invade nearby areas.Cancer covers several disorders, out of which most are either operable and eradicable or manageable, not posing life-threatening danger if caught early and provided proper care.That is the truth of how cancer is perceived scientifically, but the same cannot be said to be true in the layman's world.For the layman, cancer is a deadly disease, as they do not distinguish between the what, why, and how of cancer.This common umbrella term in a non-medical individual's life is not just biomedically dangerous but more so psychologically.In the medical world, the complications due to the tumors may be manageable, yet the idea of the same is not.