How do you recommend counseling patients on the prognosis of advanced cancer as a generalist who is not highly specialized in cancer literature or cancer-directed therapies?

Generalists can accurately prognosticate on the order of days to short months without specialized knowledge when caring for people with advanced cancer because the prognosis is often clinically obvious, and because most cancer-directed therapies take weeks to months to work (a patient may not live l...

Agree with everything listed above.

One resource that I personally thought was helpful in residency was this website (https://eprognosis.ucsf.edu/) made by some UCSF clinicians. I'm biased because it's my institution, but I think it's a helpful adjunct tool to verify your generally sense about a pa...