Friday 26 October 2012

Study Finds Advanced Cancer Patients Overoptimistic About Chemotherapy's Ability To Cure

Findings from a nationwide study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute suggest that patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer are frequently mistaken in their beliefs that chemotherapy can cure their disease. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that 69 percent of patients with advanced lung cancer and 81 percent of patients with advanced colorectal cancer did not understand that the chemotherapy they were receiving was not at all likely to cure their disease... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..

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