Tuberculosis and Cancer Over the times people made various comments about the secretive diseases we know as tuberculosis and cancer. These were the kind of diseases have very in common and at the same time they are very different. People mostly comment on these diseases not as what they are but using them as metaphors on their selves or loved ones. Tuberculosis used as the sneaky thief that steal the person’s life years ago. After sometime, as in present, cancer took this place and now it is called ‘the thief’. As a result of these, people tend to withdraw themselves from other people as a protection mechanism. I think people put these ‘tags’ on themselves to identify the diseases correctly, but actually they are just make other people sad and pressured because they got the disease. As people built up these tags, like if you have cancer you have so little to live so they treat you like you can die any second, people who have the disease feel pressured and become depressed. This is reliable to both tuberculosis and cancer because they are ‘equal to death’. And people make these conversations in private – because it is such an awful situation to them- but this makes it worse because when sick people notice this kind of conversations are in private, they tend to depress more and think they never going to survive no matter what and that’s why people are whispering about. When we think about the words, it goes to another level. If we look at the word ‘Cancer’, everyone thinks of it in a way that repulsive, unattractive. This makes people want to hide it or talk about it quietly. If some person had a heart attack, there is a good chance to have one in following years and it is dangerous. But when someone had a heart attack no one tries to hide it or talk about it in whispers or make shameful faces. But when someone