Vittorio Gebbia, Nicola Cusumano, Dario Piazza, Paolo Tralongo
One of the most frequent, although widely understandable, reactions of people diagnosed with an incurable tumor is represented by incredulity, anger, and the denial of the impossibility of a definitive cure. Often, a picture of intense anxiety quickly takes over, overlapping the ever-growing collective hysteria of modern society, the result of a complex cultural mechanism in which technocracy often prevails over thought, introspection, and, in a broader sense, humanism. In this health drama, all actors often complain of formal inaccuracies while paying little attention to substantive ones...
February 19, 2024: Journal of Cancer Education: the Official Journal of the American Association for Cancer Education