How important is the opinion of significant others to cancer patients’ adjuvant chemotherapy decision-making?
- 21 November 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Supportive Care in Cancer
- Vol. 15 (3) , 319-325
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-006-0149-z
Abstract
Decisions regarding adjuvant chemotherapy are difficult, since value tradeoffs are involved. Little is known about the importance of the significant others in patients’ decision-making regarding adjuvant treatment. We surveyed patients with breast and colorectal cancer about the importance they assigned to the opinions of their significant others and assessed correlates of these importance scores.Keywords
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