Objectives: To explore why cancer patients do not want or seek information about their
condition beyond that volunteered by their physicians at times during their illness. Design …

Objective: To assess the needs of patients with cancer for information about their condition.
Design: Cross sectional survey of patients' views by means of semistructured interview with …

Most patients with cancer want as much information as possible appropriate to their
personal needs and circumstances. 1 2 We surveyed the views of cancer patients entering a …

Clinicians may have more than one therapeutic option to offer patients and there are many
calls for more involvement of patients in decision making about their treatment. Two …

As part of a multi-centred study evaluating a communication skills training model for
clinicians, we collected information preferences using an adaptation of Cassileth's …

Objectives: To discover cancer patients' views about disclosure of information to their family,
their family's influence over the information given them, and their preferences for doctors' …

Objective To explore why cancer patients do not want or seek information about their
condition beyond that volunteered by their physicians at times during their illness. Design …

Objective To explore the hypothesis that different methods of selecting and printing
information for cancer patients could improve emotional support by affecting interaction with …

As part of a multi-centred UK study evaluating multidisciplinary team communication, the
information needs, decision making preferences and information experiences of 394 cancer …

Breaking bad news It is important to accept that you cannot soften the impact of bad news
since it is still bad news however it is broken. The key to breaking it is to try to slow down the …