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Is accurate routine cancer prognostication psychologically harmful? 5-year outcomes of life expectancy prognostication in uveal melanoma survivors

PURPOSE: Prognostication in cancer is growing in importance as increasingly accurate tools are developed. Prognostic accuracy intensifies ethical concerns that a poor prognosis could be psychologically harmful to survivors. Uveal melanoma (UM) prognostication allows survivors to be reliably told tha...

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Autores principales: Brown, Stephen L., Fisher, Peter, Hope-Stone, Laura, Damato, Bertil, Heimann, Heinrich, Hussain, Rumana, Cherry, M. Gemma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8964647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33871760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11764-021-01036-4