previvor

[Garson O'Toole]

Larry Horn actually pointed out in his 2007 ADS post that an article
on St. Petersburg Times on December 11, 2006 contains the assertion
that Susan Friedman coined the term "previvors":

Many women who have had preventive surgery say they're caught
somewhere in between those who have survived cancer and those who
haven't. They've never battled the disease or undergone radiation or
chemotherapy, but they've spent sleepless nights worrying about cancer
and weeks recovering from surgery.

Friedman coined the term "previvors" to describe them.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pe0NAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nXgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6535,88948&

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