How do you manage the wide array of emotions like anger and disappointment patients may have when they first learn of an incurable relapse of an early stage cancer?
How do you maintain a trusting relationship with your patients when this relapse occurs?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is a really tough question and there is no easy or straight-forward answer.
When I consider situations like this, however, I try to follow these guidelines:
I use initial diagnostic uncertainty to my advantage. A diagnosis of relapse is almost never made instantaneously (a suspicious lesion...
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