Psychological and psychosomatic problems of oncology
Krylov, A.A.; Krylova, G.S.
Klinicheskaia Meditsina 81(8): 57-59
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2149 PMID: 14520948 Document Number: 560388
The paper concerns the issues of medical ethics and deontology in communication of a physician with cancer patients and their relatives. Ethic and deontological norms dictate the necessity to approach each patient individually, especially in terms of giving information about the disease. While informing the patient truly about his/her disease, it is important to keep the patient hoping and focus his/her efforts on radical treatment if the disease is not too advanced. If it is so, the patients need individual and group psychotherapy which is able to improve quality of life and to prolong the survival in cancer patients.