Prognostic Awareness and Discussions of Incurability in Patients with Pretreated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Caregivers: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Takaaki HasegawaToru OkuyamaTakehiro UemuraYoshinobu MatsudaHiroyuki OtaniJunichi ShimizuYoshitsugu HorioNaohiro WatanabeTeppei YamaguchiSatoshi FukudaTetsuya OguriKen MaenoAkihiro TamiyaKaname NosakiKensuke FukumitsuTatsuo AkechiPublished in: The oncologist (2022)
Patients with advanced cancer who had both recent and past discussions about incurability with their oncologists have more accurate prognostic awareness. Improving prognostic awareness could reduce the preference for life-prolonging treatment.