[Perspectives] The ways we talk about cancer

From Whispers to Shouts, The Ways We Talk About Cancer (Columbia Press, 2023) is the first book from journalist and physician Elaine Schattner. In addition to her professional training in oncology, Schattner brings her experience as a patient, having survived breast cancer. The book offers a review of how cancer has been represented in the media over the past 120 years and ends with Schattner’s musings on future directions for cancer treatment and the patient experience.