Counselling the Cancer Patient: Surgeon's Counsel

Updated counselling for the patient with prostate cancer

For many years, prostate cancer has been the most common cancer in American men. The disease is now common in men in the Middle East and in Arab countries. The ever-expanding, seemingly conflicting literature on prostate cancer makes counselling patients with prostate cancer a difficult but often necessary part of clinical practice. The mass of information that can be supplied to the patient ca...

Surgeons’ Errors in the Management of Patients with Cervical Cancer

Background and Aim: Generally, in patients with cervical cancer, careful preliminary evaluation is necessary for avoiding improper surgical procedures and making effective clinical decisions for treatment. The aim of this study was to determine surgeons’ errors, which necessitate a combination of surgery and radiotherapy for cervical cancer patients.    Methods: In this retrospective study, med...

The Independent Counsel Mess

Deconstructing the Right to Counsel

Coordinating cancer care: patient and practice management processes among surgeons who treat breast cancer.

OBJECTIVES The Institute of Medicine has called for more coordinated cancer care models that correspond to initiatives led by cancer providers and professional organizations. These initiatives parallel those underway to integrate the management of patients with chronic conditions. METHODS We developed 5 breast cancer patient and practice management process measures based on the Chronic Care M...