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Complexities in prognostication in advanced cancer: "to help them live their lives the way they want to".

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  • 1. Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and the Cancer Research Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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    • Lamont EB 1
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JAMA, 01 Jul 2003, 290(1):98-104
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.290.1.98 PMID: 12837717 

A comment on this article appears in "Communicating life expectancy to patients with terminal illness." JAMA. 2003 Oct 15;290(15):1995. A comment on this article appears in "Complexities in prognostication in advanced cancer: "to help them live their lives the way they want to"." JAMA. 2003 Oct 15;290(15):2056.

Abstract 

Predicting survival and disclosing the prediction to patients with advanced disease, particularly cancer, is among the most difficult tasks that physicians face. With the de-emphasis of prognosis in favor of diagnosis and therapeutics in the medical literature, physicians may have difficulty finding the survival information they need to make appropriate estimates of survival for patients who develop cancer. Quite separate from the challenge of estimating survival accurately, physicians may also find the process of disclosing the prognosis to their patients difficult. Using the vignette of a real patient with advanced cancer who far outlived her physician's prognostic estimate, we discuss clinical issues related to the science of prognosis in advanced cancer and the art of its disclosure.

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