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ways to diagnose breast cancer :: Article Creator When 'Cancer' Gets In The Way Of Treatment A diagnosis is more than words on a page. It's everything that comes with it: the doctor's tone of voice, a gentle touch of the hand, the pauses left so the patient can digest the news. All of these details subtly impart how you should think about the label that you've just been given. But one diagnostic word in particular threatens to derail any rational discussion of its meaning: cancer. "'Cancer' is just this panic word," said Laura Scherer, a social psychologist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus who studies how doctors communicate risk. Patients compare hearing the term to "getting hit by a truck, like they can't process anything that comes after," she said. Kirsten McCaffery, a health researcher and psychologist at the University of Sydney's School of Public Health, added, "T...