When patients hear the word cancer, it scares or worries them. If doctors and patients removed the word cancer, there would be no problem. Cancer can be very scary and make patients or their family members believe that their life is over. Not in all cases, but some cancers can ultimately be treated or cured. “Most assume they have a disease that will progress, metastasize, and cause death,” the group wrote in the journal Lancet Oncology in May. Only when patients immediately hear the word cancer. This is why cancer treatment has become a question of how to cure these terrible diseases.