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The information to the cancer patient: psychosocial and spiritual implications

โœ Scribed by Antonella Surbone

Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
276 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
0941-4355

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โœฆ Synopsis

The issue of whether, how and how much to tell cancer patients about their diagnosis and prognosis is confronted in different ways in different countries. This paper reflects my direct experience as a medical oncologist both in the US and in Italy. It is an attempt to describe two different ways of dealing with truth-telling in oncology and to explore their reasons and consequences.

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