Cancer Status
Dimension 1011 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Cancer Status measures whether an expression indicates the presence, diagnosis, treatment context, or lived significance of cancer. It encompasses references ranging from unrelated or nonspecific health content through cancer-related treatment and identity to explicit confirmation of a cancer diagnosis.
evidence final name · Cancer Taking
Absent Cancer Status
Expressions activating this band contain unrelated health, self-evaluative, or social concern content without clear indication of cancer as a present condition or defining context.
Possible Cancer Status
Expressions activating this band frame illness-related meaning, appearance concerns, future threat, treatment choice, or disclosure in a way that is compatible with serious illness but does not directly establish cancer.
Established Cancer Status
Expressions activating this band explicitly place the speaker in a cancer-related medical context through diagnosis, treatment, surgery, hospital care, or efforts to learn about treatment.
Confirmed Cancer Status
Expressions activating this band directly state or query whether a person has been told they have cancer or has been diagnosed with cancer, often treating cancer as a central and life-defining condition.
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Minimal Cancer Taking: Content characterized by disabled, com, next, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect cancer taking at this level.
Moderate Cancer Taking: Content characterized by visit, result, worry, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect cancer taking at this level.
Intense Cancer Taking: Content characterized by cancer, chemoradiation, result, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect cancer taking at this level.
Peak Cancer Taking: Content characterized by cancer, destroys, taking, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect cancer taking at this level.