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From: Oncologist approaches to communicating uncertain disease status in pediatric cancer: a qualitative study

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Applying communication strategies for prognostic communication in settings of equivocal news. Patterns of prognostic communication in disease reevaluation conversations conveying equivocal news are specified with recommendations for re-stating news using two communication strategies: (1) “this means” and (2) the “3Ws” (e.g., “I wish, I worry, I wonder”). Suggestions for alternative phrasings are based on the authors’ collective clinical experiences

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BMC Cancer

ISSN: 1471-2407

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