When the diagnosis is cancer: Patient co
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Phyllis N. Butow; John N. Kazemi; Linda J. Beeney; Anne-Marie Griffin; Stewart M
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## BACKGROUND. Discrepancies exist between reported experiences of patients when they have been given a diagnosis of cancer, published guidelines for telling a diagnosis, and patterns of communication patients rate as favorable. Several studies have identified what happened and what is important t