Attitudes to chemotherapy: comparing views of patients with cancer with those of doctors, nurses, and general public.
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Summary
Patients with cancer are much more likely to opt for radical treatment with minimal chance of benefit than people who do not have cancer, including medical and nursing professionals.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1990-06-02
- Cited by
- 776
- References
- 8
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W1985609148
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:44328008
Keywords
Cancer chemotherapy, Medicine, Family medicine, Psychology, Cancer
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