Media reports may paint overly optimistic view of cancer
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 11:28
in Health & Medicine
Newspaper and magazine reports about cancer appear more likely to discuss aggressive treatment and survival than death, treatment failure or adverse events, and almost none mention end-of-life palliative or hospice care, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.