Telling the truth to patients with cancer: what is the truth?

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 944-950

  Surbone, Antonella ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BENEFICENCE; CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORALITY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT RIGHT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 33750328980     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(06)70941-X     Document Type: Note

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