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Disarming the guarded prognosis: predicting survival in newly referred patients with incurable cancer

People affected by cancer want information about their prognosis but clinicians have trouble estimating and talking about it. We sought to determine the nature and accuracy of medical oncologists' estimates of life expectancy in newly referred patients with incurable cancer. With reference to e...

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Autores principales: Stockler, M R, Tattersall, M H N, Boyer, M J, Clarke, S J, Beale, P J, Simes, R J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2361107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16404420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602908