It Is Not What You Think: Associations Between Perceived Cognitive and Physical Status and Prognostic Understanding in Patients With Advanced Cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Keiko KuritaHolly G Prigerson

Abstract

Patients with advanced cancer often overestimate their time left to live. Those who have heightened awareness of their cognitive and physical deficits at the end of life may have a better prognostic understanding. We sought to investigate the extent to which patients' self-reports of physical well-being and cognitive function were associated with prognostic understanding. Logistic regression analyzed data from Coping with Cancer II, a National Cancer Institute-funded study of patients with advanced cancer from nine U.S. cancer clinics. Patients with metastatic cancers who had an oncologist-estimated life expectancy of less than six months and did not have significant cognitive impairment were eligible (N = 300). Trained interviewers administered subsets of the McGill Quality of Life and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cognition, Version 2, to measure physical well-being and cognitive complaints. There were four dichotomous outcomes: acknowledgment of their terminal illness; understanding that their diagnosis was late or end stage; belief that life expectancy was months, not years; and prognostic understanding, which was defined as accurate responses to all three questions. Covariates included age and gender. Worse p...Continue Reading

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