The survey on the informed consent for genitourinary cancer patients.

Abstract

The phrase of“informed consent”is common and many people have much information about cancer now. And in Japan, informing patients the true they have concer is one of the most important problems during the therapeutic course of cancer patients. We surveyed the doctors in our department on how to get the informed consent from the patients with cancer and discussed what is the best way for the patients to understand their disease enough.