5 Things

Communication

Students Should Know AboutCancer

Communication

#1What is Cancer Communication?

between patients ...

*Good communication

Family caregivers ...

And the health care team!

Cancer communication is

building trust.

SHARING INFORMATION

Talk about feelings, concerns and decision making

*Patients diagnosed with cancer develop fear and anxiety...

Decision making about the care of the patient becomes difficult.

So...

Good communication can ultimately help the patient, families, and doctors make important decisions together *

#2Who uses

it

Patients

Families

Caregivers

Doctors

two important people...

"Help me find my way in life, and I will build you a shrine” -Danny Thomas

Founder of St. Jude's Hospital

Improved health care for children all around the world.

Susan G. Komen Cure

“As I look back over the more than 25 years since I founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure, I am amazed at our accomplishments. What began as a promise to my dying sister, Susan G. Komen, has evolved into the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures”. -Nancy G. Brinker, Founder and CEO

#3So what?

Cancer Communication is important at

EVERY stage of care for the patient

diagnosed.

Especially when life changing

decisions are made.

The Cancer

Communication

Research Center (CRN) is

coming up with new

ways to communicate

about cancer.

*

Media and Mass Mediaare quick ways to get information

to a lot of people,

However...*

That has little impact if

not repeated over and over again!

*

*INSTEAD

TRY

TALKING WITH OTHERS!

Communicate with other diagnosed patients, family members, and caregivers.

In June of 2013, Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI)

will be publishing a peer-reviewed issue that will include,

Health journalism and mass media

Clinical care and patient support,

*and

Cancer prevention and control interventions

get the info you need.

#4Criticism

The most common complaints

among cancer patients is the

poor communication and the lack

of information

*

Patients cannot make the right

kind of decisions if they do not

have the appropriate

information.

New research shows...

disagreeing with your

physician can increase

your chances of death.

*

Communication issues include:

*

Communication at diagnosis

Contradictions and confusions

Getting the correct amount of information

Good and poor communication

Feeling listened to

Medical information

#5What else...

The National Cancer Institute plans to

issue a special report, co-authored by

a University of Rochester physician.

Therefore, stating that communication

is vital to good cancer care and

deserves a lot more research!

*

“Ultimately, we need to structure our health care system so that it fosters excellent communication and improves access to information, particularly among those patients who are most disadvantaged”. – co-

author Ronald M. Epstein M.D., professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Oncology at the University of Rochester

While,Australians can

receive audio recordings of their doctor visits!

United Kingdom is a step ahead, along with many other countries.

Patients in the United Kingdom can write notes on their medical records.

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