Cancer Thoughts

By Yaron S Butterfield

September 10th, 2026

This is a word cloud that Yaron Butterfield created. Word clouds (sometimes also called text clouds or tag clouds) are a simple concept: the more frequently a specific word appears in a data source (ie a survey, speech, presentation, seminar, database, etc) the bigger and bolder it appears in the word cloud. In other words, word clouds are images made up of words used in a specific context, where the size and boldness of the word indicates its importance or frequency. For his word cloud, Yaron canvassed seven brain cancer/tumour Facebook groups and asked people to give him words that described their journeys following diagnosis. Yaron received over 300 words from around the world and created this word cloud image using all the words he was sent.