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Treatment decisions: a qualitative study with women with gynaecological cancer

Milica Markovic1, Lenore Manderson, Michael Quinn

  • 1Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, Department of Public Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Ausralia. milicam@unimelb.edu.au

This qualitative study investigated women's participation in decisions regarding treatment of gynaecological cancer. Thirty women, receiving health care in two tertiary hospitals in Australia, were interviewed face-to-face. For women with gynaecological cancer, the most influential factors in treatment decisions are still the surgeon's recommendation and fear of dying from cancer.