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Impact of self-decision to stop cancer treatment on advanced genitourinary cancer patients
Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Apr 9;100(14):e25397. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000025397.ABSTRACTDecision-making to stop cancer treatment in patients with advanced cancer is stressful, and it significantly influences subsequent end-of-life palliative treatment. However, little is known about the extent to which the patient’s self-decisions influenced the prognostic period. This study focused on the patient’s self-decision and investigated the impact of the self-decision to stop cancer treatment on their post-cancer treatment survival period and place of death.We retrospectively analyzed 167 cases of advanced genitourinary cancer patients (kidney cancer: 42; bladder cancer: 68; prostate cancer: 57) treated at the University of Fukui Hospital (UFH), who later died because…
Origen: Impact of self-decision to stop cancer treatment on advanced genitourinary cancer patients – PubMed