Education should come before renaming "scary" ailments

An international cancer expert is calling for low-risk cancers to be called something less scary.

Writing in the British Medical Journal. Californian Researcher Laura Esserman has proposed a name change for thyroid, prostate and breast cancer.

She says modern screening programmes have led to over-detection of cancer.

Chair of the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation, Dr Reena Ramsaroop, argues there should be more focus on educating patients.

She says renaming illnesses shouldn't be a solution.