Helping Cancer Patients Through Difficult Decisions.

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Tom A. Doyle is a postdoctoral fellow at the Indiana University School of Medicine, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The author thanks Peter H. Schwartz for his helpful feedback and guidance during the writing of this essay. To access the author's disclosures, click on the Details tab of the article online.

Published: July 2023

A patient with cancer faces a choice between radiation and chemotherapy without the resources he needs to guide him.

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