Open AccessDoes the cancer patient want to know? Results from a study in an Indian tertiary cancer center
Author(s) -
S S Laxmi,
Joad Anjum Khan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
south asian journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-4306
pISSN - 2278-330X
DOI - 10.4103/2278-330x.110487
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , affect (linguistics) , distressing , depression (economics) , family medicine , psychiatry , philosophy , linguistics , chemistry , economics , macroeconomics
The disclosure of the diagnosis of cancer is a distressing and complex issue. Families and doctors still do not tell patients when they have cancer in the belief that the patient does not want to know and telling him would lead to fear and depression. The aim of this survey was to evaluate the information needs of Indian cancer patients.