美国国家癌症研究所的顶尖专家建议,应当对癌症的诊断和治疗方法进行彻底改革,其中包括调整癌症的定义,并把这个词从一些常见的诊断中彻底去除。《纽约时报》7月31日报道,这个工作组建议,有些在乳房、前列腺、甲状腺和肺部等部位进行的癌症筛查中发现的病变,完全不该叫做癌症,而应当被重新归类为IDLE症状,意思是“上皮源非痛性病变”。 The top experts at the National Cancer Institute in the United States suggested that radical reforms should be made in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, including the adjustment of the definition of cancer and the removal of the term from some common diagnoses. The New York Times reported on July 31st that the working group suggested that some of the lesions found in breast cancer, prostate, thyroid and lung cancer screening should not be called cancer at all, but should be reclassified as IDLE symptoms mean “non-painful lesions of epithelial origin.”