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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 9, Pages 877-+Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.18.02112
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Communicating prognosis clearly and empathically can foster accurate prognostic awareness in patients with advanced cancer and their family members. Whereas patients and doctors desire clear prognostic communication, it presents many challenges in oncologic and palliative care settings. Patients with advanced cancer often have poor prognostic awareness as a result of deficiencies in doctor communication and understandable-and potentially adaptive-attempts by patients and families to reduce the threat of death and maintain hope. Interventions to promote prognostic discussion have largely succeeded in increasing the frequency, but not necessarily the quality, of such discussions, yet have failed to improve prognostic awareness. Because clear communication of prognosis is an ethical mandate, more research is needed to provide an evidence base for teaching and practice in this area. (C) 2020 by American Society of Clinical Oncology
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