Information priorities of Italian early-stage prostate cancer patients and of their health-care professionals.

The study was designed to compare the information priorities of Italian early-stage prostate cancer patients to those of their health-care professionals. Doctors (urologists and oncologists), nurses, radiation therapy technologist (RTs), and patients treated with radiotherapy in Northern Italy were surveyed. Respondents rated the importance of addressing each of 78 questions as: essential, important, or superfluous.