Patients with advanced cancer may be less competent to make decisions than doctors think

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Forty-four percent of patients with advanced cancer but only eight percent of healthy adults showed impaired understanding; Forty-nine percent of patients and eight percent of healthy adults showed impaired appreciation; and 85.4 percent of patients versus 10 percent of healthy adults showed impaired reasoning.

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