Except that bacterial and viral infections have a disparate set of effect with no guarantee of any overlap beyond "disease." Such is not the case with cancer.

Except that bacterial and viral infections have a disparate set of effect with no guarantee of any overlap beyond "disease." Such is not the case with cancer. Prognosis is the main differentiator, but that's not enough to say "stop using cancer as a catch-all." It's a wide classification that still tells you what is happening inside the body, which is not the case with a bacterial or viral infection.