Prognostic Awareness in Advanced Disease: A Review Update and Concept Analysis.

Purpose: Although subjective knowledge about the prognosis of an advanced disease is extremely important for coping and treatment planning, the concept of prognostic awareness (PA) remains inconsistently defined. The aims of the scoping review were to synthesize a definition of PA from the most recent literature, describe preconditions, correlates and consequences, and suggest a conceptual model.

Methods: By using scoping review methodology, we searched the and databases, and included publications, reviews, meta-analyses or guidelines on all physical diagnoses, as well as publications offering a conceptual or an operational definition of PA.

Information, communication, and cancer patients' trust in the physician: what challenges do we have to face in an era of precision cancer medicine?

Purpose: Despite promising achievements in precision cancer medicine (PCM), participating patients are still faced with manifold uncertainties, especially regarding a potential treatment benefit of molecular diagnostics (MD). Hence, MD poses considerable challenges for patient information and communication. To meet these challenges, healthcare professionals need to gain deeper insight into patients' subjective experiences.

Perspectives of patients with multiple myeloma on accepting their prognosis-A qualitative interview study.

Objective: Prognostic awareness is essential for making treatment decisions in malignant diseases. Being confronted with a poor prognosis, however, can affect patients' mental health. Therefore, it is important to study coping in the context of malignant diseases.

Cancer patients' expectations when undergoing extensive molecular diagnostics-A qualitative study.

Objective: Precision cancer medicine (PCM) aims at identifying tumor-driving molecular characteristics to improve therapy. Despite early successes for some cancers, the approach faces manifold challenges. Patients undergoing extensive molecular diagnostics (MD) may hope for personal benefit, although chances are small.

Early palliative care for those who care: A qualitative exploration of cancer caregivers' information needs during hospital stays.

Background: The supporting role of caregivers is crucial to cancer patients' care and well-being. Periods of inpatient hospital treatment are common in the cancer trajectory. There is insufficient systematic knowledge of caregivers' experiences and information needs in hospital context.

Early integration of palliative/supportive cancer care-healthcare professionals' perspectives on the support needs of cancer patients and their caregivers across the cancer treatment trajectory.

Purpose: Delivering palliative/supportive cancer care (PSCC) early in the course of cancer care can enhance patients' and caregivers' quality of life, reduce anxiety and depression, and prolong patients' lives. However, their support needs are analyzed insufficiently from viewpoints other than their own. The goal of this study was to explore the perspectives of healthcare professionals on desirable standards of support for tumor patients and caregivers across the cancer treatment trajectory.