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To treat or not to treat, that is the question(*)
Following a diagnosis and surgical treatment for localized breast cancer, medical oncologists present patients with adjuvant systemic therapeutic options that have been shown to reduce the risk of subsequent cancer recurrence. In this commentary, I present the challenge that resulted from my discuss...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7375721/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32742714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055102920943025 |
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| description | Following a diagnosis and surgical treatment for localized breast cancer, medical oncologists present patients with adjuvant systemic therapeutic options that have been shown to reduce the risk of subsequent cancer recurrence. In this commentary, I present the challenge that resulted from my discussions with a patient and family who asked that I not only discuss options and make recommendations but also decide the choice of therapy on her behalf. |
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| spelling | pubmed-73757212020-07-31 To treat or not to treat, that is the question(*) Sorscher, Steven Health Psychol Open Theoretical Contribution / Commentary Following a diagnosis and surgical treatment for localized breast cancer, medical oncologists present patients with adjuvant systemic therapeutic options that have been shown to reduce the risk of subsequent cancer recurrence. In this commentary, I present the challenge that resulted from my discussions with a patient and family who asked that I not only discuss options and make recommendations but also decide the choice of therapy on her behalf. SAGE Publications 2020-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7375721/ /pubmed/32742714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055102920943025 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| spellingShingle | Theoretical Contribution / Commentary Sorscher, Steven To treat or not to treat, that is the question(*) |
| title | To treat or not to treat, that is the question(*) |
| title_full | To treat or not to treat, that is the question(*) |
| title_fullStr | To treat or not to treat, that is the question(*) |
| title_full_unstemmed | To treat or not to treat, that is the question(*) |
| title_short | To treat or not to treat, that is the question(*) |
| title_sort | to treat or not to treat, that is the question(*) |
| topic | Theoretical Contribution / Commentary |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7375721/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32742714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055102920943025 |
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