ReviewThe American psychologist
Decision making and cancer.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Testing an Intelligent Tutoring System Intervention to Enhance Genetic Risk Assessment in Underserved Blacks and Latinas at Risk of Hereditary Breast Cancer
Giving Information Systematically and Transparently in Lung and GI Cancer
Giving Information Systematically and Transparently in Lung and GI Cancer Phase 2
Who cites it
119 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Personalizing cancer risk: a systematic review of risk communication strategies.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2026Pooled it
- Tamoxifen and Fertility in Women with Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review on Reproductive Outcomes and Oncological Safety of Treatment Interruption.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Integrating Shared Decision-Making into Undergraduate Oncology Education: A Pedagogical Framework.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2024Pooled it
- Decision aids for cancer survivors' engagement with survivorship care services after primary treatment: a systematic review.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2024Pooled it
- Inoperable malignant bowel obstruction: palliative interventions outcomes - mixed-methods systematic review.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2024Pooled it
- Availability and effectiveness of decision aids for supporting shared decision making in patients with advanced colorectal and lung cancer: Results from a systematic review.European journal of cancer care · 2019Pooled it
- Effect of a Patient Decision Aid on Preferences for Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Older Adults: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
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- When Does the Incremental Risk Format Aid Informed Medical Decisions? The Role of Learning, Feedback, and Number of Treatment Options.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2020Trial
- "The median isn't the message": How to communicate the uncertainties of survival prognoses to cancer patients in a realistic and hopeful way.European journal of cancer care · 2019Trial
- Optimistic Bias and Personality Factors in Adherence to Oral Anticancer Treatments in Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Retrospective Analysis of Data From a Randomized Controlled Trial.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterTrial
- The Lure of Beauty: People Select Representations of Statistical Information Largely Based on Attractiveness, Not Comprehensibility.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision MakingTrial
- Satisfaction with treatment decision-making and long-term experiences of life-prolonging treatments for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.BMC palliative care · 2026Observational
- Development and Validation of a Patient-Centered Scale to Evaluate Decision Aid Usability and Information Overload.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2026Article
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- Associations Between Health Information Sources, Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics, and Decision-Making Among Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer.Research square · 2026Article
- "It's Either Have Surgery or Die": How Patients Perceive the Choice to Undergo High-Risk Abdominal Surgery for Cancer.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2026Article
- Overexpression of the ERG oncogene in prostate cancer identifies candidates for PARP inhibitor-based radiosensitization.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026Article
- Initial chemotherapy dose reductions and subsequent treatment delivery in stage I-IIIA breast cancer.Cancer · 2026Article
- Shared Decision Making and Advance Care Planning in the Context of Promoting Home Medical Care in Japan: A Narrative Review.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2026Review
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Abstract
We review decision making along the cancer continuum in the contemporary context of informed and shared decision making in which patients are encouraged to take a more active role in their health care. We discuss challenges to achieving informed and shared decision making, including cognitive limitations and emotional factors, but argue that understanding the mechanisms of decision making offers hope for improving decision support. Theoretical approaches to decision making that explain cognition, emotion, and their interaction are described, including classical psychophysical approaches, dual-process approaches that focus on conflicts between emotion versus cognition (or reason), and modern integrative approaches such as fuzzy-trace theory. In contrast to the earlier emphasis on rote use of numerical detail, modern approaches emphasize understanding the bottom-line gist of options (which encompasses emotion and other influences on meaning) and retrieving relevant social and moral values to apply to those gist representations. Finally, research on interventions to support better decision making in clinical settings is reviewed, drawing out implications for future research on decision making and cancer.
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