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The Clinical Cost of Silence in Cancer Care
What happens when patients and caregivers protect each other by stayingsilent?
Sometimes, the biggest clinical problem is not what the patientsays. It is what they are afraid to say.
In cancer care, patients and caregivers often try to protect each other fromfear and anxiety. They suppress their concerns, avoid difficult conversations,and sometimes become overprotective—usually with the best intentions.
But silence can have a clinical cost.
Unspoken anxiety may affect eating, medication-taking, treatment completion,investigations, follow-up visits, and family behavior. When fear…
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