I have a secret love affair. And it shall remain clandestine no more. Well, if you know anything about me it's really no secret: I love words. Or to be more specific, I "lerfe" them. I confess to a propensity to veer vehemently toward being verbose and voluminous (particularly when print-tificating - as I am now).
But it's not necessarily about using as many words as possible; but quite the antithesis. On average, in a lifetime a person draws from between only 20,000 and 30,000 words of the over 1,000,000 available in the English language. I've made it my goal to get as close to 1,000,000 as possible. Seeking to summon the perfect word which was crafted to fulfill the correct summation of a thought - in its most appropriate context.
Not that even more words are needed, but I felt motivated to add a few additional terms to the cancer lexicon. By their construct or definition, I believe these could be perceived as slightly more germane and poignant relative to the esoteric world of oncology - it's treatments and interventions.
- Oncolo-gist (If you are well-supported medically, your treatment team leader gets to the "real point" of the diagnosis and prognosis)
- Buy-opsy (This diagnostic procedure may afford you some relief, and buy you some time/warning if it confirms a false alarm)
- Be-nein (Of German origin for no cancer being there - aka: benign)
- Key-motherapy (All non-standard interventions aside, this is the key methodology for treatment. Did you ever notice that the word mother is in there, too?)
- Raid-iation (This approach invades the body and attacks the carcinogenic area en masse)
- In-you-know-therapy (Immunotherapy is the latest treatment approach discovery which yields surprising results that leverages the natural defenses "in you" to fight disease)
- In-few-sion (Chemotherapy involves a cocktail of drugs - a few of them injected during a typical session)
- Metasta-size (When a tumor grows and spreads in size)
- Too-more (Cancer is purely the rampant overgrowth of normal cells, but is harmful when too much results in a tumor)
- Re-mission (After all, that's the mission - to beat back the cancer)
- Patient Navigator (Just as it says, one who patiently helps the victim / family maneuver through the fathoms of bureaucracy, plethora of paperwork and extensive emotions)
