10 ways to make better decisions about cancer care
The CBS News website recently featured 10 tips to make better decisions about cancer care from
U-M’s Angela Fagerlin, Ph.D., associate professor of internal medicine.
Below is an excerpt from the article:
Cancer is scary, and doctors sometimes sound as if they’re speaking a
foreign language when talking about the disease and its treatment. But
“people are making life and death decisions that may affect their
survival and they need to know what they’re getting themselves into,”
says Fagerlin “Cancer treatments and tests can be serious. Patients need
to know what kind of side effects they might experience as a result of
the treatment they undergo.”
Click this link for the UM press release.
Reference: Journal of the National Cancer Institute,
Vol. 103, No. 19, Oct. 5, 2011, published online Sept. 19, 2011;
“Helping Patients Decide: Ten Steps to Better Risk Communication”
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Brian Zikmund-Fisher, PhD
Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan
School of Public Health, as well as a Research Assistant Professor in the
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical
School. ...
Angela Fagerlin, PhD
Angie Fagerlin studied psychology and literature at Hope College and received her PhD in experimental (cognitive) psychology at Kent State University. Her primary research focus is testing methods for communicating the risks and benefits of treatment to patients (e.g., in decision aids) and testing...
