title: Cancer and truth.
abstract: In this paper the authors discuss the continuing dilemma for doctors who have to tell a patient that he has cancer, particularly the moment when he should confirm a diagnosis that most patients have already sensed. For the writers it is most important that the doctor should be a bridge for the patient to return to his everyday world from the physical and spiritual isolation which his disease has created.
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations