Background Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with a great
diversity in outcomes among individual patients. The ability to accurately predict a breast …

Prognosis is an issue that most doctors and patients describe as difficult to discuss and the
best way of presenting prognostic information to optimise patient understanding …

Purpose To identify preferences for the process of prognostic discussion among patients
with incurable metastatic cancer and variables associated with those preferences. Patients …

Purpose To identify preferences for and predictors of prognostic information among patients
with incurable metastatic cancer. Patients and Methods One hundred twenty-six metastatic …

Clinical practice guidelines for communicating prognosis and end-of-life issues with adults in
the advanced stages of a life-limiting illness, and their caregivers | The Medical Journal of …

Little is known of the psychosocial factors associated with decision regret in the context of
breast reconstruction following mastectomy for breast cancer treatment. Moreover, there is a …

Good communication is a fundamental skill for all palliative care clinicians. Patients present
with varied desires, beliefs, and cultural practices, and navigating these issues presents …

Aim. To identify the psychosocial needs of breast‐cancer patients and their relatives along
with factors affecting these needs and to develop a tentative model to guide further research …

A systematic review of the literature about patients' preferences for involvement in cancer
treatment decision making was conducted. Establishing preferences is important if the aim is …

When patients are diagnosed with cancer, primary care physicians often must deliver the
bad news, discuss the prognosis, and make appropriate referrals. When delivering bad …