[The wants of information of out-patients undergoing irradiation for malignant neoplasm (author's transl)].
In the course of final check-up, after a series of irradiations, the remarks of 80 patients have been recorded. The want of information was expressed by 74% Stage I-II patients were primarily interested in the results of medical examination and hoped for cure, whereas depressive reactions and anxiousness were found more frequently in stage III-IV, but the intention not to abandon hope and the desire for detailed information were also existent. Prognosis, anxiousness and fear of death are discussed, in general, not earlier than after several meetings, the question of the prognosis particularly being important to patients under 50. Special characteristics of the correlation physician-patient in the case of radiation treatment are interpreted considering the role adopted by the patient and his response to cancerous disease.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001007:Anxiety; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D012803:Sick Role; D014342:Truth Disclosure
Informationsbedürfnisse ambulant bestrahlter Malignompatienten.