Cancer Semantics: What Do We Call Ourselves

Listen to us talk about all the labels you can have during and after cancer treatment.

• Cancer words are negative words; your 2.0 was forged in the fire of cancer, but your new identity is not "cancer."
• You might never feel like a "hero" or a "survivor".
• Fighter implies all sorts of things, like you are at war with your own cells.
• Doctors often won’t say: "You are in remission." 
• Pay attention to how you talk about your cancer and yourself.