Study Finds Shared Decision Making During Radiation Therapy Improves Patient Satisfaction

Playing an active role in their radiation treatment decisions leaves cancer patients feeling more satisfied with their care, and may even relieve psychological distress around the experience, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the journal Cancer.

In a study of 305 patients undergoing radiation treatment, Neha Vapiwala, MD, an associate professor in the department in Radiation Oncology at Penn Medicine, and colleagues at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center found an association between patient satisfaction and patient-perceived control and shared-decision making.

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