Trade-offs between overall survival and side effects in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer: eliciting preferences of patients with primary and metastatic breast cancer using a discrete choice experiment
Conclusions
Patients are willing to forgo overall survival to avoid particular severity levels of side effects. Our results have implications for data collected in research studies and can help inform person-centred care and shared decision-making.
Source: BMJ Open - Category: General Medicine Authors: Bullen, A., Ryan, M., Ennis, H., Gray, E., Loria-Rebolledo, L. E., McIntyre, M., Hall, P. Tags: Open access, Health economics Source Type: research
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