SynthesisJournal of health psychology2014
Conceptualizing prognostic awareness in advanced cancer: a systematic review.
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71 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prognostic understanding interventions in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Question prompt list intervention for patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Pooled it
- The relationship between acceptance of cancer and distress: A meta-analytic review.Clinical psychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Prognostic awareness and communication of prognostic information in malignant glioma: a systematic review.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2014Pooled it
- Patient and oncologist expectations of functional prognosis among older adults with acute myeloid leukemia.Blood advances · 2026Trial
- Perceptions of prognosis and end-of-life care outcomes in patients with advanced lung and gastrointestinal cancer.Palliative medicine · 2023Trial
- Death Anxiety and Correlates in Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Care.Journal of palliative medicine · 2023Trial
- Medical information and decision-making in palliative cancer: a qualitative study of patients' perceptions, needs, and preferences regarding physician communication.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Lessons from the field: culturally grounded approaches to recruiting Chinese American immigrant cancer patients to psycho-oncology trials.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Shifting sands: How parents engage with the idea of their child's death.Palliative & supportive care · 2026Article
- Top of the license practice or out of our scope? A qualitative analysis of social workers' role in cultivating prognostic awareness on hospital palliative care teams.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Domains of prognostic awareness, quality of life, and psychological distress in patients with advanced cancer.The oncologist · 2025Article
- Perception of cure and quality of life in anal cancer survivors.Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) · 2025Article
- Cancer Prognostic Awareness: Relations to Patient and Caregiver Quality of Life and Care Preferences.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2025Article
- Between host country and homeland: a grounded theory study on place of dying and death in migrant cancer patients.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Prognostic awareness in family caregivers of patients with terminal illness: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Accurate prognostic awareness is associated with increased emotional distress in Latino patients with advanced cancer.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
- Prognostic beliefs in patients with cancer receiving outpatient palliative care.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- 'I couldn't live without hope': A qualitative study using reflexive thematic analysis on approaches to hope and prognostic awareness among people with advanced disease.Palliative medicine · 2025Article
- What Have You Been Told? Awareness of Prognosis of Patients in an Italian Home Palliative Care Service.Palliative medicine reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
This systematic review synthesizes the complex literature on prognostic awareness in cancer. A total of 37 studies examining cancer patients' understanding of their prognosis were included. Prognostic awareness definitions and assessment methods were inconsistent across studies. A surprisingly high percentage of patients (up to 75%) were unaware of their poor prognosis, and in several studies, even their cancer diagnosis (up to 96%), particularly in studies conducted outside of North America. This review highlights surprisingly low rates of prognostic awareness in patients with advanced cancer as well as discrepancies in prognostic awareness assessment, suggesting the need for empirically validated measures of prognostic awareness.
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