Information, communication, and cancer patients' trust in the physician: what challenges do we have to face in an era of precision cancer medicine?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Despite promising achievements in precision cancer medicine (PCM), participating patients are still faced with manifold uncertainties, especially regarding a potential treatment benefit of molecular diagnostics (MD). Hence, MD poses considerable challenges for patient information and communication. To meet these challenges, healthcare professionals need to gain deeper insight into patients' subjective experiences. Therefore, this qualitative study examined information aspects of MD programs in cancer patients.

Methods

In two German Comprehensive Cancer Centers, 30 cancer patients undergoing MD participated in semi-structured interviews on information transfer and information needs regarding MD. Additionally, patients provided sociodemographic and medical data and ind

SUBMITTER: Pichler T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7892511 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature