Systematic Understanding of Cancer Patients Who Refuse Treatment

摘要: The refusal of treatment by cancer patients often takes place in a highly charged emotional context. Clinicians facing these situations frequently feel they are confronting an ethical dilemma involving whether to accept the patient’s or persuade patient different position. However, most involve issues psychological distortions, interpersonal dysfunction, medical systems psychiatric disorder, such as depression organic mental disorder. By systematically reviewing dimensions with patient, many apparent dilemmas will be resolved.