如果说“谈虎色变”是一个古老的成语,那么,“谈癌色变”无异于这则古老成语的新翻版。在现代医学心理学上,恐癌症这样一个新问题出现了。归纳起来,癌症恐怖心理的社会表现有以下三种,即绝望、回避和消极对待。绝望表现最为普遍。癌症患者本人对自身病情绝望,并由此对治疗产生厌烦,对治疗效果失去信心。这些病人中,听天由命,不敢多想者有之;极度紧张,过度恐惧促使自寻短见以求早日解脱 If “talk of change” is an old idiom, then “discoloration of cancer” is no different from the new revision of this ancient idiom. In modern medical psychology, a new problem of cancer has emerged. To sum up, there are three kinds of social manifestations of cancer horror psychology: despair, avoidance and negative treatment. Despair is most common. Cancer patients themselves despair of their condition, and thus tired of treatment, loss of confidence in the treatment effect. These patients, dying, dare not think more of those who have; extreme tension, excessive fear prompted to find their own ways to seek early release