Table of Contents
Communication: Back to the Human Side of Medicine
Antonella Surbone, Matjaz Zwitter, Mirjana Rajer and Richard Stiefel
Part I: The Cancer llness: Discovering Truth
1. From Truth Telling to Truth In the Making: A Paradigm Shift in Communication with Cancer Patients
Antonella Surbone
2. Denial in Patient-Physician Communication Among Patients with Cancer
Neil Aggarwal and Michael Rowe
3. Managing Uncertainty
Lidia Schapira
4. Ethical Issues in Disclosing Bad News to Cancer Patients: Reflections of an Oncologist in Saudi Arabia
Ali Al-Amri
5. Psychological Challenges for the Oncology Clinician Who Has to Break Bad News
Friedrich Stiefel and Sonia Krenz
6. Dealing with Depression: Communicating with Cancer Patients and Grieving Relatives
Luigi Grassi, Rosangela Caruso and Maria Giulia Nanni
7. Communication Issues in Integrative Oncology
Donald Abrams
8. Communicating About Spiritual Issues with Cancer Patients
Lorenzo Norris, Kathryn Walseman and Christina M. Puchalski
9. Understanding Perspective Transformation Among Recently Diagnosed Cancer Patients in Western India
Avinash Thombre and Allen C. Sherman
Part II: The Patient and The Family
10. In the Pursuit of Meaning: Cancer and the Family
Lea Baider
11. The Patient's Personality as a Guide to Communication Strategy
Purvish Parikh, Kumar Prabhash, GS Bhattacharyya and AA Ranade
12. Challenges to the Disclosure of Bad News to Cancer Patients in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia as an Example
Ali Aljubran
13. Talking to a Child with Cancer: Learning from the Experience
Eulalia Lascar, María Angélica Alizade and Blanca Diez
14. Effective Communication with Older Cancer Patient
Lodovico Balducci and Martine Extermann
15. "I Never Died Before..." End-of-Life Communication with Elderly Cancer Patients
Stein S. Husebø and Bettina S. Husebø
16. Communication with Cancer Patients about Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Guido Biasco, Matteo Moroni and Ludovica De Panfilis
17. Communication with Patients with Hereditary Cancer: Practical Considerations Focusing on Women's Cancers
Karen Carapetyan, Julia Smith and Franco Muggia
Part III: The Physician
18. Physician's Emotions in the Cancer Setting: A Basic Guide to Improving Well-Being and Doctor-Patient Communication
Marie Die Trill
19. The Setting, The Truth and The Dimensions of Communication with Cancer Patients
Ursula Klocker -Kaiser and Johann Klocker
20. Improving Communication Effectiveness in Oncology: The Role of Emotions
Maria Antonietta Annunziata and Barbara Muzzatti
21. Binary Thinking: Hope and Realistic Expectations in Communication with Cancer Patients
Jerome Lowenstein
22. A Physician's Personal Experiences as a Cancer-of-the-Neck Patient: Communication of Medical Errors to Cancer Patients and Their Families
Itzhak Brook
23. Communication with Cancer Patients in Family Medicine
Mustafa Fevzi Dikici, Fusun Yaris and Fusun Aysin Artiran Igde
24. How to Train Teachers of Communication Skills: The Oncotalk Teach Model
Walter F. Baile
25. Communication Skills Training of Physicians in Portugal
Luzia Travado
26. Communication between Cancer Patients and Oncologists in Japan Maiko Fujimori, Yuki Shirai and Yosuke Uchitomi
Part IV: The
About the Author:
Antonella Surbone is a medical oncologist working in Italy and the US. Together with Professor Zwitter and Richard Stiefel, she authored and edited the 1997 New York Academy of Sciences volume Communication with the Cancer Patient: Information and truth, which inspired her further work and this present book.
Matjaz Zwitter is a radiation oncologist with a long-term interest in lung cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and medical ethics. In addition, he serves as Professor of Medical Ethics at the Medical School, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
Mirjana Rajer is a medical oncology student at the Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana. She is involved in clinical research in lung cancer and conducts research in cancer-patient communication, with special emphasis on the impact of media and the Internet on patient-physician communication.
Richard Stiefel first worked with Drs. Surbone and Zwitter during his twenty years as Associate Editor of the Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences. He has had a parallel career as Lecturer in Music Theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
