How Long Have I Got?

This is probably the first thing that a patient asks when told they have cancer, but most receive no clear answer to this. They aren’t even told if it is curable or likely to end their life. Sometimes the doctors seem to avoid the issue that they feel the patients don’t want to hear, and the patient is kept in the dark. This article written by Liz Szabo of the Kaiser Health News has posted documented information on this subject.

Dr. Rab Razzak, director of outpatient palliative medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore believes there are a huge number of …read more