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Advance Directives Uncommon in Patients with Recurrent Hematologic Cancers
Advance Directives Uncommon in Patients with Recurrent Hematologic Cancers
R Finn
20090901
2009 Oct 1
Elsevier Global Medical News
Advance Directives Uncommon in Patients with Recurrent Hematologic Cancers
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2009 Oct 1, R Finn
SAN FRANCISCO (EGMN) - Only a small minority of patients with relapsed leukemia or lymphoma discussed advance directives with their physicians, according to a survey of 75 such patients at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.Although 35 (47%) of the patients had an advance directive, just 5 (7%) had ever discussed advance directives with their oncologist, said Dr. Thomas J. Smith at the annual Oncology Congress presented by Reed Medical Education."You would think that most of them would've...