The Stability of Treatment Preferences Among Patients With Advanced Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Stability of patients' treatment preferences has important implications for decisions about concurrent and future treatment.

Objectives

To examine the stability of treatment preferences and correlates among patients with advanced cancer.

Methods

In this cohort, 104 patients with metastatic cancer, progression after at least one chemotherapy regimen, and an oncologist-estimated life expectancy of six or fewer months participated in structured interviews after clinical visits in which patients' recent scan results were discussed. Interviews were repeated in three monthly follow-ups. At baseline, patients' age, education, sex, race, marital status, insurance status, and type of cancer were documented. At each assessment, patients reported their treatment preferen

SUBMITTER: Jabbarian LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6700722 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature