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Discussing Stopping Cancer Screening and Prognosis With Older Adults
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Prognosis information and Provider Scripts for Cancer Screening. Completed, enrolled 90 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
Guidelines recommend not screening adults with \<10-year life expectancy for cancer; however, primary care physicians feel uncomfortable talking to older adults about prognosis. The investigators aim to determine whether providing PCPs with scripts on patient prognosis and older adults with information on their prognosis would be useful when recommending stopping cancer screening.
Study Details
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An individualized report including each patient's prognosis will be calculated by the Lee-Schonberg and will include information on patient life expectancy from Cho et al.'s US life tables. This report will be sent to the PCP three days before the patient visit. Example scripts for PCPs to use with patients when discussing life expectancy and stopping cancer screening will be sent with the patient prognostic information.