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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Giving Honest Information to Patients With Advanced Cancer Maintains Hope - Cancer Network



"Background: Oncologists often do not give honest prognostic and treatment-effect information to patients with advanced disease. One of the primary reasons stated for witholding this information is to “not take away hope.” We could find no study that tested if hope was influenced by honest clinical information...cont'd"

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