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Doctors are renaming mild prostate cancers, higher medical costs hit insurers, and an ideology gap is opening up between men and women

Read our AI Deep Dive Watch All-In E163 Caught my eye… A growing number of doctors are advocating that low-grade prostate cancers that grow very slowly or not at all should not be called cancer, fearing that the term may frighten men and even their doctors into pursuing more aggressive treatments than may be necessary. This isn’t the first time the name of a cancer has been changed. Certain forms of thyroid, cervical and bladder cancers have previously been reclassified to avoid scaring people about cancers that are unlikely to spread. Health insurance company Humana reported steep…

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