Why is Russian society so afraid of cancer? Program guests-oncologist, hematologist Mikhail Laskov and Olga Goldman, director of the project "Co-action" Sergey Medvedev: We, as always, are talking about the pain points of our time, and today - the point is the most painful, but it is a hidden pain, it is not customary to talk about it out loud. This is a Tabu disease, a name that is not customary to pronounce, “cancer”, so it is often replaced by the word “oncology”.