title: Bone-pointing: a modern entity.
abstract: This article seeks to create an awareness of the manner in which our society in general, albeit unconsciously, negatively influences the disease by an erroneous and unnecessarily pessimistic attitude to cancer. It is a plea for a change in our irrational beliefs about cancer, which form a striking analogy to the phenomenon of the tribal aboriginal's custom of bone-pointing.
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D011781:Quackery; D012059:Rejection, Psychology