New Cancer Patients Retain Little Medical Information
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22 — People hearing the devastating news that they have cancer have trouble remembering the details of the conversation with their doctor.
And, those who have the worst prognosis are likely to remember even less, a new study found.
Reporting in the Nov. 20 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers from the Netherlands and Australia found that most people just diagnosed with cancer remembered less than half of what their doctor had told them.