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Research Says Some Cancer Patients Overly-Optimistic

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By Chaas Toborg - email

 

HEIDELBERG, Germany - Some Advanced cancer patients are overly-optimistic about their chance of long term survival.

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 69% of patients with advanced lung cancer and 81% of those with advanced colon cancer didn't understand that Chemotherapy was unlikely to cure their disease.

Researchers say the misunderstanding can pose obstacles to end of life planning.

 

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