A central challenge of the palliative care clinician, and of the oncologist who sees patients
with advance disease, is that of 'breaking bad news'. As this conversation requires that the …

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 …

Until recently physicians have been reluctant to disclose a poor prognosis to patients for fear
of harming them with the bad news and/or taking away their will to live. In the last decades …

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and preferences of
terminally ill cancer patients regarding truth telling in the communication of poor prognoses …

This qualitative study was conducted among the family caregivers of cancer patients treated
in a hospital in Shenzhen, southern China, to elucidate the truth-telling process. Thirteen …

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 …

We describe two cases involving male foreign nationals (a Chinese and a Georgian) treated
in a US hospital. Both patients had terminal illnesses, and both cases involved clashes …

The issue of truth-telling to the cancer patient is much like a pendulum, which can swing
from a cold, nontherapeutic truth-telling to a paternalistic, unjustified truth-withholding …

Psychological distress is estimated to affect 25–30% of patients when given a cancer
diagnosis and/or told of recurrence. 1 It has been suggested that this distress could be …

Talking about sad, bad, and difficult things with patients and their families is a fundamental
and an inevitable part of the health-care professional's (HCPs) work, but one in which few …