Table 2.

Responses to the Following Survey Question: Of the Following Examples, Choose Which One Best Summarizes Your Communications With Your Advanced Cancer Patients About Their Prognosis? (n = 710)

Survey Item	No. of Respondents	%
I do not discuss prognosis with my patients	3	0.4
I discuss it if my patients ask about it	115	16
I ask my patients if they want to know their prognosis and discuss it if they say yes	236	33
I always discuss my patients’ prognoses with them because they need to know it	303	42
Other	65	9
Missing	7