Journal article
Cancer Patient Preferences for Communication of Prognosis in the Metastatic Setting
Abstract
PURPOSE: To identify preferences for and predictors of prognostic information among patients with incurable metastatic cancer.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: One hundred twenty-six metastatic cancer patients seeing 30 oncologists at 12 outpatient clinics in New South Wales, Australia, participated in the study. Patients were diagnosed with incurable metastatic disease within 6 weeks to 6 months of recruitment. Patients completed a survey eliciting their …
Authors
Hagerty RG; Butow PN; Ellis PA; Lobb EA; Pendlebury S; Leighl N; Goldstein D; Lo SK; Tattersall MHN
Journal
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 1721–1730
Publisher
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Publication Date
May 1, 2004
DOI
10.1200/jco.2004.04.095
ISSN
0732-183X