Patient education is a fundamental pillar of quality cancer care. Providing adequate
information about cancer and its treatment is essential to ensure shared decision-making
between patients and their care providers and to enhance patients’ therapeutic compliance,
psychological wellbeing, and quality of life.
information about cancer and its treatment is essential to ensure shared decision-making
between patients and their care providers and to enhance patients’ therapeutic compliance,
psychological wellbeing, and quality of life.
However, despite being strongly recommended and being legally required in several
countries, information provision is still an unmet need for many patients, and is
particularly challenging in resource-limited settings.
Interventions aimed at overcoming global barriers in patient education are greatly
needed to close the equity gap in cancer care and to improve patient outcomes.