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- Title
Attitudes of patients with incurable cancer toward medical treatment in the last phase of life.
- Authors
Voogt, Elsbeth; van der Heide, Agnes; Rietjens, Judith A C; van Leeuwen, Anna F; Visser, Adriaan P; van der Rijt, Carin C D; van der Maas, Paul J
- Abstract
When cancer has advanced to a stage in which cure becomes unlikely, patients may have to consider the aim of further treatment. We studied the relationship of patients' attitudes toward treatment with advance care planning and the development of these attitudes after diagnosis of incurable cancer.
- Publication
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2005, Vol 23, Issue 9, p2012
- ISSN
0732-183X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1200/JCO.2005.07.104