… Removing the cancer label in low risk conditions that are unlikely to cause harm if left
untreated may help reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment, argue Brooke Nickel and
colleagues … For low risk lesions where there is evidence of overdiagnosis and previous calls
to replace the term cancer,2-5 we consider the potential implications of removing the cancer
label and how this may be achieved. … Notwithstanding the challenges, we agree there is
now a clear need to relabel some precancerous conditions and low risk cancers (table 1). …