For over a century, cancer has been classified by areas of the body - lung cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer etc. And yet modern&nbsp;medical research is telling us that the molecular and genetic mechanisms behind cancers are not necessarily tied to parts of the body. Many drugs developed&nbsp;to treat metastatic cancers have the capacity to work across many different cancers, and that presents an opportunity for more tailored and efficient treatments.&nbsp;Oncologists are calling for a change in the way patients, clinicians and regulators&nbsp;think about naming cancers.In this podcast, senior comment editor Lucy Odling-Smee speaks with Fabrice André from Institute Gustave Roussy, to ask what he thinks needs to change.Comment:&nbsp;<a href="https://open.acast.com/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Forget lung, breast or prostate cancer: why tumour naming needs to change</a><a href="https://open.acast.com/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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Why we need to rethink how we talk about cancer

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