Eidinger R N, Schapira D V
Cancer. 1984 Jun 15;53(12):2736-40. doi: 10.1002/1097-0142(19840615)53:12<2736::aid-cncr2820531233>3.0.co;2-w.
The authors interviewed 190 patients with metastatic cancer to determine their insight into their disease, treatment and prognosis. They also explored their attitudes to religion, their guilt feelings, and the persons with whom they discussed their condition. The authors also examined the feelings of 315 patients with a diagnosis of cancer toward unconventional therapies. It was found that only 55% of the patients were aware that their cancer had spread, and only 48% knew the location of their metastases. The majority of patients seemed satisfied with the amount of information they received from their physician although 38% of the patients believed their knowledge about their cancer was inadequate. Patients were optimistic about their treatment in that 37% thought it would cure them and 60% thought it would control their metastatic disease. A third of the patients had become more religious since learning they had cancer, but only 6% of the patients saw the development of cancer as a form of punishment. About 25% of the patients thought that either Laetrile, vitamins, or special diets could cure cancer, and 70% said they would take these forms of treatment if available, although only 7% were taking or had taken an unconventional therapy.
作者对190名转移性癌症患者进行了访谈，以确定他们对自身疾病、治疗及预后的了解程度。他们还探讨了患者的宗教态度、内疚感以及他们与哪些人讨论过自己的病情。作者还研究了315名确诊癌症患者对非传统疗法的看法。结果发现，只有55%的患者意识到自己的癌症已经扩散，只有48%的患者知道转移灶的位置。大多数患者似乎对从医生那里获得的信息量感到满意，尽管38%的患者认为自己对癌症的了解不足。患者对治疗持乐观态度，37%的患者认为治疗能治愈他们。60%的患者认为治疗能控制转移性疾病。三分之一的患者自得知患癌后变得更加虔诚，但只有6%的患者将患癌视为一种惩罚形式。约25%的患者认为，苦杏仁苷、维生素或特殊饮食能治愈癌症，70%的患者表示如果有这些治疗方式，他们会接受，尽管只有7%的患者正在接受或已经接受过非传统疗法。
