Study: Cancer patients overestimate value of chemo
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
NEW YORK (AP) -- Most patients getting chemotherapy for incurable lung or colon cancers mistakenly believe that the treatment can cure them rather than just buy them some more time or ease their symptoms, a major study suggests. Researchers say doctors either are not being honest enough with patients or people are in denial that they have a terminal disease....