As a follow-up to my previous post, here's a perspective from a June 2011 article in Seminars in Oncology:
"Most patients with incurable cancer want information about the impact
cancer will have on their future, and many want specific estimates of
the most likely, best case, and worst case scenarios for survival. With
improved understanding of life expectancy, patients are better equipped
to make appropriate treatment decisions and plans for the future.
Although physicians acknowledge that patients with incurable cancer want
prognostic information and benefit from this, most struggle to provide
it and experience difficulty in making reliable estimates, communicating
them, and tailoring the information to the individual patient."
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