Patient explicit consideration of tradeoffs in decision making about rectal cancer treatment: benefits for decision process and quality of life.

DISCUSSION: This is the first study to assess the effect of an adaptive conjoint analysis-based VCM on actual patient-clinician communication, and long-term decision regret and impact of treatment harms. Being explicitly invited to think about treatment benefits and harms seems to help patients to live with treatment consequences.
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Source: Acta Oncologica - April 10, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Pieterse AH, Kunneman M, van den Hout WB, Baas-Thijssen M, Geijsen ED, Ceha HM, Muller KM, van der Linden YM, Marijnen CAM, Stiggelbout AM Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research