title: [The knowledge of cancer patients about their disease].
abstract: 160 patients suffering from malignant tumors were interviewed by means of a questionnaire. Most of them had been treated by radiotherapy in a curative intent. The treatment had been finished about one year before, all patients submitted to curative therapy were free from recurrences. 80% out of them knew about their diseases, benignity or malignancy, sites of the primary tumors, and extent of lymph node metastases. Only 5% of the patients had to be informed about their disease at the Radio-oncology Hospital, 88% had been informed already by the physicians before. About 90% of the patients were of the opinion that a complete information was suitable and desired by them. As our patients got older, their desire for information diminished considerably. Even one year after the end of their disease, 34% did not speak frankly with other persons about their disease. The study showed furthermore that the hope of being cured is not affected by information. In this context, 90% of the patients were of the opinion that information should not exceed a certain degree.
authors.affiliation: Strahlenklinik des Universitätsklinikums Essen.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sack
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bischof
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Der Wissensstand von Krebspatienten über ihre Erkrankung.