Ethical Conflicts and Countermeasures on Diseases Informing of Malignant Tumor Patients / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

At present, most of the malignancies still have poor treatment and even poor prognosis .In the case of disease informing , the families of many patients with malignant tumors are inclined to conceal the disease based on the risks that may result in the patient ' s pain while patients want to know their disease diagnosis and prognosis . Telling patients the truth is helpful to promote the patients to participate in the treatment decision , cooperate with the treatment, prolong the survival time , improve the quality of life and also is the requirement of relevant laws and regulations, but it also faces many ethical conflicts in practice .Aiming at this, this paper proposed to strengthen health education , make necessary training to medical staff , design individual informative programs , cooperate rea-sonably with family members , and so on .