Sunday, May 02, 2010

News Media Portray "Inappropriately Optimistic View" of Cancer

Shock! Horror! You mean the media might not be telling the truth?
"Portrayals of cancer care in the news media may give patients an inappropriately optimistic view of cancer treatments, outcomes, and prognosis," concludes an original investigation published in the...Archives of Internal Medicine.

"Unrealistic information may mislead the public about the trade-offs between attempts at heroic cures and hospice care," it adds.
Huh.

Go figger.

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