Affected by cancer, patients want to understand their pathology and need to be better informed by the medical staff in charge of their protocol. General practitioners would like to work in better coordination with hospital doctors and receive continuous training on cancers.
The results of this survey tell us that the general public is demanding more information on prevention and recidivism (33% of responses) and better explanations of treatments (21%). In fact, the majority of patients (93%) want more educational explanations, and 84% of them would like to be able to read or listen again to what was said during a consultation. A desire that Institut Curie has transformed with the mycurie.fr application, specially intended for patients.
General practitioners want to know more about cancers
This survey also reveals that 41% of general practitioners would like more interactions with hospital doctors and 40% call for more information on the prescriptions made to patients.
While general practitioners are supporting more and more people affected by cancer, 3 in 10 believe that they do not have sufficient information to ensure patient follow-up and 26% call for reinforcement of continuing medical training in oncology.
“The coordination between city medicine and hospital has become a major subject”, while the treatment of cancer “has evolved a lot in recent years, with an increasingly important part given to acts performed on an outpatient basis”, underlined the Pr Thierry Philip, the president of the Institut Curie, during a press conference organized to present the results of the study and quoted by Parisien.fr.
Some 350,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed each year in France: 150,000 in women (a third of which are breast cancer) and 200,000 in men (of which 53,000 are prostate cancer), according to the reports. figures from the National Cancer Institute (Inca).
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