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Cancer patients may be kept in the dark about treatments as doctors wrestle with bureaucracy



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Published Date: 26 August 2008
By John von Radowitz
DOCTORS are keeping cancer patients in the dark about new treatments that could extend their lives, it was claimed yesterday.
A quarter of myeloma specialists questioned in a survey admitted hiding facts about treatments that may be difficult to obtain on the NHS. The main reason given was to avoid distressing or confusing patients.

Myeloma is a bone marrow cancer that a...



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dundy 26/08/2008 10:24:53
That a quarter of docs avoided telling patients about treatments that were experimental or were not available seems very sensible...I would not expect anything less!!!
What do we want? Doctors raising hopes about treatments that are unlikely to work or become available???

 

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