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Disclosure of diagnostic information to cancer patients in Greece
K Mystakidou1, C Liossi, L Vlachos
1Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, University of Athens, Areteion Hospital, Greece.
Palliative Medicine
|July 1, 1996
Abstract:
Truth-telling to cancer patients is controversial. The aim of the present study was to investigate oncologists', radiotherapists', and palliative care specialists' attitudes and truth-telling practices in Greece. A postal survey of a representative sample of 300 oncologists, radiotherapists, and palliative care specialists was made in February 1993. A total of 228 doctors completed and returned the questionnaires. It appears that withholding the truth from cancer patients remains very common in Greece.