title: [The attitude of cancer patients to their own diagnosis].
abstract: The wide spectrum of viewpoints on how fully should a cancer patient be informed of his or her disease made it interesting to evaluate patients' own attitude to the issue. A questionnaire was offered to 280 cancer patients to assess the degree of awareness of their disease as well as psychologic preparedness to face the true diagnosis. As many as 93.6% of patients expressed a certain degree of desire to know diagnosis and details of their disease.
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Blinov
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Komiakov
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Shipovnikov
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014342:Truth Disclosure
vernacular_title: Ob otnoshenii onkologicheskikh bol'nykh k svoemu diagnozu.