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Breaking bad news in cancer care
1Frimley Park Hospital NHS Trust, Surrey.
Professional Nurse (London, England)
|June 29, 2002
Abstract:
When a diagnosis of cancer, such as prostate cancer, is made nurses may be involved in presenting the news to the patient. How that news is given can make the experience a distressing or reassuring process. In the first part of this paper, the authors examines the human qualities required by professionals and the barriers to breaking bad news.