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["Mercy lie" for the patient with cancer]
J P Chacon1, C M Kobata, S P Liberman
1Departamento de Cirurgia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo.
Revista Da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992)
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
The authors discussed the problem of whether or not to be completely frank with cancer patients about their diagnosis. They analysed the results of a survey of 79 doctors (Phase 1) in which they tried to find out how the doctors behaved towards the patients, their families and with themselves in the different situations caused by the illness. In the second stage (Phase 2), they also put the following question to 118 adults: If it was diagnosed that you had cancer would you like your doctor to tell you?