This state of affairs is suggestive of the long shadow cancer casts and the public's confusion about how to prevent it. Fear and the public's willingness to spend its own money have created a huge cancer-prevention money pit: the cancerophobic economy.
此一現象除了反映癌症籠罩的陰影，以及民眾面對癌症威脅時的手足無措，更標指出一個已見雛形，以「恐懼心理」為基底，且由民眾自掏腰包所堆砌出來的錢坑──一個防癌的市場，一個「癌恐」的經濟！