… 3 Bartlett EE, Gravson M, Barker R. The effects of physician communication skills on patient
… 28 MacLeod R. Patients with advanced breast cancer: the nature and disclosure of their …

Breaking bad news to patients is one of the most difficult and demanding tasks that oncologists
face—and one for which they are often poorly trained and emotionally ill equipped. The …

Peritoneal crushing, abrasion, and ischemia, stimuli which consistently produce permanent
adhesions, are associated with local depression of peritoneal plasminogen activator activity. …

We describe a protocol for disclosing unfavorable information—“breaking bad news”—to
cancer patients about their illness. Straightforward and practical, the protocol meets the …

… With this guide Robert Buckman and Yvonne Kason provide help. Using plain, intelligible …
Based on Buckman's award-winning training videos and Kason's courses on interviewing …

No one seems to find it easy to talk about bad news with a patient and, although much has
been published about patients' reactions, there is very little written (other than in specialist …

PURPOSE: To examine the attitudes and practices of oncologists in disclosure of unfavorable
medical information to cancer patients. METHODS: A questionnaire was administered to a …

Objectives: To develop a precise mathematical formulation of resource‐constrained triage,
denoted the Sacco triage method (STM), to develop an evidence‐based application to blunt …

Effective symptom control is impossible without effective communication. The most powerful
analgesics will be of little value if health care professionals do not have an accurate …

Tumor cells grown as multicellular spheroids are known to be intrinsically more resistant to
a large and diverse array of anticancer chemotherapeutic drugs compared to the same cells …