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What We Talk About [When We Talk About Cancer]

A Mass General Hospital Cancer Center Community Conversation

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An unhealthy lack of fear?

Erin O | Staff Member | 09-03-2013

A lot of people say that fear is good…that it can help protect us. But I’ve always been told that I have an unhealthy impassiveness towards fear. There’s nothing…

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Education and Prevention

Erin O | Staff Member | 07-12-2013

The National Institute of Health was the first to define “health disparities”: Health disparities are differences…

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Every Survivor is Different

Erin O | Staff Member | 05-14-2013

When it comes to dealing with cancer, the word “survivor” takes on a different meaning for everyone involved in the experience. For the patient, it could mean more than beating the disease. It could mean…

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Care Can be the Little Things

Erin O | Staff Member | 04-24-2013

Often, when people hear the word “care” in reference to medical treatment, they think of tests being done…of medication being administered…of the nurse who checks their vitals. Care can go so much further than that…

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Our Mission

This is a place where anyone who counts themselves as a member of the Mass General Cancer Center community --- patient, family member, physician, nurse, researcher, social worker, care giver, administrator --- can come to read, think, and write about the words we all use, but which we don’t always understand in the same way. Often we use words and phrases that are common, that we use every day. Yet, their very familiarity creates the illusion of common understanding where, the fact is, we are frequently using these words in radically different ways, with radically different meanings. In our small way, WWTA is meant to help us work toward a common language and make the conversations we have about cancer more meaningful.

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