Change of genitourinary cancer patients' perception and expectations over the course of pharmacotherapy.

ABSTRACT: To determine the course of treatment while considering the patients' desires, we examined trends regarding patients' perception and expectations over the course of cancer pharmacotherapy. We retrospectively reviewed interview sheets filled in by patients with advanced urogenital cancers when they started a new pharmacotherapy regimen between 2014 and 2020. The responses to the following questions were analyzed: 1) How did your doctor explain the treatment objectives?; 2) Are you willing to receive treatment?; and 3) When the standard treatment becomes difficult to continue, would you like to try another treatment even if it may cause severe side effects? A total of 277 patients answered the interview sheet. The percentage of patients who accurately perceived the treatment objectives among

SUBMITTER: Satou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9681061 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature