Patient preference and decision-making for initiating metastatic colorectal cancer medical treatment.

CONCLUSIONS: Variations in patients' willingness to tolerate different treatment-related adverse events underscore the need for improved communications between physicians and patients about the risks and benefits of their medical treatment, which helps make a more personalized decision for metastatic CRC treatment. PMID: 26577827 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Colorectal Cancer - November 18, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Fu AZ, Graves KD, Jensen RE, Marshall JL, Formoso M, Potosky AL Tags: J Cancer Res Clin Oncol Source Type: research