Study Finds That Significant Proportion Of Men Told Wife's Cancer Was Incurable Late Or Not At All

 11.07.2008 07:11   medicalnewstoday.com

A study conducted in Sweden found that more than 40 percent of widowers in that country whose wives died from cancer four or five years earlier reported they were either never told that their spouse's cancer was incurable, or they heard this information during the last week of her life. Eighty-six percent of widowers believed next-of-kin should be told immediately when a wife's cancer is incurable, including 71 percent of the men who did not recall being told this information.

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