Treatment decisions: A qualitative study with women with gynaecological cancer
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and GynaecologyPublished 25 January 2006
Milica Marković, Lenore Manderson, Michael Quinn
Citations6
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score0.65
SNIP0.67
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
For women with gynaecological cancer, the most influential factors in treatment decisions are still the surgeon's recommendation and fear of dying from cancer.
Abstract
This qualitative study investigated women's participation in decisions regarding treatment of gynaecological cancer. Thirty women, receiving health care in two tertiary hospitals in Australia, were interviewed face-to-face. For women with gynaecological cancer, the most influential factors in treatment decisions are still the surgeon's recommendation and fear of dying from cancer.
Keywords
Social SciencesMedicineHealth Professions
New England Journal of MedicineConcurrent Cisplatin-Based Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer
2,671 Citations1999Peter G. Rose, Brian N. Bundy +6 more
Regimens of radiotherapy and chemotherapy that contain cisplatin improve the rates of survival and progression-free survival among women with locally advanced cervical cancer.
New England Journal of MedicinePelvic Radiation with Concurrent Chemotherapy Compared with Pelvic and Para-Aortic Radiation for High-Risk Cervical Cancer
2,303 Citations1999Mitchell Morris, Patricia J. Eifel +7 more
The addition of chemotherapy with fluorouracil and cisplatin to treatment with external-beam and intracavitary radiation significantly improved survival among women with locally advanced cervical cancer.
BMJCancer patients' information needs and information seeking behaviour: in depth interview study
828 Citations2000Geraldine Leydon
Cancer patients' attitudes to cancer and their strategies for coping with their illness can constrain their wish for information and their efforts to obtain it, and the government's cancer information strategy should attend to variations in patients' desires for Information and the reasons for them.
BMJQualitative research in health care
696 Citations2000William H. Isbister
If the journal does publish papers for education and debate it follows that they should be understandable to all of the readers of the journal, including such lowly students as surgeons, and that it has to be remembered by educators that an essential part of the educational process is good communication.
Social Science & MedicineSharing decisions in cancer care
499 Citations2001Melina Gattellari, Phyllis Butow +1 more
Findings underscore the pre-eminence of the shared decision making model and suggest that encouraging participation may be the safest standard approach.
The OncologistRelapsed Ovarian Cancer: Challenges and Management Strategies for a Chronic Disease
305 Citations2002Deborah K. Armstrong
This review will discuss important patient management issues and will conclude with case studies illustrating two distinct treatment strategies (planning and sequencing) for the long-term management of patients with ovarian cancer.
BMJDoctors' communication of trust, care, and respect in breast cancer: qualitative study
288 Citations2004Emma Burkitt Wright, Christopher Holcombe +1 more
Women with breast cancer seek to regard their doctors as attachment figures who will care for them and seek communication that does not compromise this view and that enhances confidence that they are cared for.
Sociology of Health & IllnessDoing Nothing is No Choice: Lay Constructions of Treatment Decision‐making Among Women with Early‐stage Breast Cancer
177 Citations1998Cathy Charles, Timothy J. Whelan +3 more
It was found that many women who were presented with the choice to undergo some form of adjuvant treatment versus no treatment felt that ‘doing nothing was no choice’ and retained the idea of probability but thought that they personally would beat the odds.
Gynecologic OncologyInformation Needs and Decisional Preferences among Women with Ovarian Cancer
162 Citations2000Donna E. Stewart, F. Wong +8 more
The results present a challenge to health care providers in more adequately meeting the individual information needs of women with ovarian cancer and involving them to the extent that they wish in the decision-making process.
Patient Education and CounselingPreferences for involvement in medical decision-making: situational and demographic influences
160 Citations1993Suzanne C. Thompson, Jennifer S. Pitts +1 more
The higher desire for involvement in decisions not requiring medical knowledge was found both for groups that traditionally have wanted involvement and for those that have not, and the implications for patient participation in decision-making are discussed.
Psycho-OncologyLay constructions of decision‐making in cancer
125 Citations2002Michael G. Henman, Phyllis Butow +3 more
Twenty women with cancer were interviewed via telephone 2 weeks after their first consultation with one of 6 medical oncologists and recruitment continued until informational redundancy was achieved.
Gynecologic OncologyPatients’ Preferences for Therapy in Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Development, Testing, and Application of a Bedside Decision Instrument
94 Citations1996Laurie Elit, Mark N. Levine +5 more
The Decision Board is a reliable and valid method for sharing information about advanced ovarian cancer with patients and it was feasible to provide survival information to 98% of the healthy women.
Gynecologic OncologyWomen’s perceptions about treatment decision making for ovarian cancer
61 Citations2003Laurie Elit, Cathy Charles +6 more
The Medical Journal of AustraliaOvarian cancer: patterns of care in Victoria during 1993–1995
41 Citations2002Marisa Grossi, Prudence A. Francis +5 more
European Journal of Cancer CareDo bowel cancer patients participate in treatment decision-making? Findings from a qualitative study
34 Citations2003Tom Sanders, Suzanne M. Skevington
It is concluded that patients who indicate a desire to participate in these types of consultations should be encouraged to do so and oncologists should try to identify those patients who could benefit from a greater role in treatment decision-making.
The BreastDo women newly diagnosed with breast cancer and consulting surgeon assess decision-making equally?
23 Citations2002Inger Schou, Öyvind Ekeberg +2 more
Not all women who are eligible for BCS receive an option, and female surgeons were more influenced by their assessment of the women's need for security, than male.
British Journal of CancerStaging quality is related to the survival of women with endometrial cancer: a Scottish population based study.Deficient surgical staging and omission of adjuvant radiotherapy is associated with poorer survival of women diagnosed with endometrial cancer in Scotland during 1996 and 1997
19 Citations2002S Crawford, Linda de Caestecker +5 more