Healthcare professionals often censor their information giving to patients in an attempt to
protect them from potentially hurtful, sad or bad news. There is a commonly expressed belief …

The amount of information received by terminal cancer patients about their illness varies
across different countries. Many Chinese families object to telling the truth to the patient and …

Pressure from legal authorities and consumer groups for statutory control over the processes
of informed consent for clinical trials and treatments suggests that communication is …

Themes included the education of health care providers, the need to care for carers, and
interdisciplinary communication. Little attention was given to the growing population of …

Since the 1960s communication and awareness about dying in modern western societies
have been topics for debate, with a considerable amount of literature on the need for open …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the attitudes towards truth-telling of both terminal patients and
professional caregivers, and to determine their perceived barriers to full information …

In the transition from curative to palliative cancer care, communication is of special
importance. The aim of this study was to explore how patients with a disseminated cancer …

The delivery of palliative care to patients with advanced cancer and their families, whether
done by oncology clinicians or palliative care clinicians, requires patient-centered …

Advanced cancer patients commonly have misunderstandings about the intentions of
treatment and their overall prognosis. Several studies have shown that large numbers of …

The relationship between truth telling and culture has been the subject of increasing
attention in the literature. The issue of whether, how and how much to tell cancer patients …