Navigating Cancer Test Results Is Challenging for Patients and Their Caregivers

Medical literacy is important, but not everybody is medically educated. Sometimes it is hard for the patient to know every detail and to know what is significant and potentially life-threatening and what isn’t and what questions to ask. It should be the duty of the doctors and the labs to explicitly, and in simple terms, explain what a positive or out-of-range test might mean for the patient – and sometimes even relatives.

https://www.curetoday.com/view/inclusion-in-cancer-care-takes-an-effort-on-all-fronts

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