ABSTRACT: Prognostic Disclosure to Patients with Cancer near the End of Life [07/18/2001; Annals of Internal Medicine] Background: Patients' understanding of their prognosis informs numerous medical and nonmedical decisions, but patients with cancer and their physicians often have disparate prognostic expectations. Objective: To determine whether physician behavior might contribute to the disparity between patients' and physicians' prognostic expectations. Conclusions: Physicians reported that even if patients with cancer requested survival estimates, they would provide a frank estimate only 37% of the time and would provide no estimate, a conscious overestimate, or a conscious underestimate most of the time (63%). This pattern may contribute to the observed disparities between physicians' and patients' estimates of survival. www.plwc.org JAMA, June 11, 2008 End of Life Guidance from JAMA expanded Remember we are NOT Doctors and have NO medical training. This site is like an Encylopedia - there are many pages, many links on many topics. Support our work with any size DONATION - see left side of any page - for how to donate. You can help raise awareness of CAM.