Desire for Information and Preference for Participation in Treatment Decisions in Patients With Cancer Presenting to the Department of General Surgery in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India

Desire for Information and Preference for Participation in Treatment Decisions in Patients With Cancer Presenting to the Department of General Surgery in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India

Purpose: Providing appropriate information to patients about their illness helps them to cope with the diagnosis. Shared decision making is a key concept in managing patients with cancer. There are no data available about the desire for information and preference for participation in treatment decis...

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Main Authors: Sushmitha Dharani Sankar, Baskaran Dhanapal, Gomathi Shankar, Balamourougan Krishnaraj, Sandhya Karra, Vignesh Natesan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society of Clinical Oncology 2018-02-01
Series:Journal of Global Oncology
Online Access:http://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JGO.17.00144

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