When someone is diagnosed with cancer, we often see comments like “keep fighting, you’ve got this!”. Is there any scientific basis behind this actually having an effect on the outcome / survival and remission rates? What exactly are they doing when they’re “fighting” that helps to beat the cancer?
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As a cancer surviver I don’t understand where this ‘fighting cancer’ is coming from. That oncologists might see it as a battle is understandable, but that it has shifted to the patients themselves is strange. Maybe someone started it as a way of giving people hope that they are not powerless when diagnosed, but as some others here have said, it has a nasty backlash that the patient is made partly responsible for when things don’t turn out well.
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