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Eighty per cent of the women believed treatment for breast cancer to be a long process that would make a patient very ill.
One explanation may be patients were less likely to be aggressive with physicians if they believed treatment could be withheld [ 41].
Strong correlations have been observed between (1) nonadherence and patients who believed treatment medication was unnecessary or had concerns of adverse effects and (2) greater adherence and patients who believed their asthma was of greater severity[ 33].
Two qualitative studies identified nihilism as a possible reason for patients' delays in seeking medical treatment for their symptoms [ 35, 40] and a third qualitative study found that one of the reasons why patients refused recommended treatments and investigations for lung cancer was that they believed treatment was futile [ 33].
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One study reported that 57% of African-American women with and without breast cancer believed treatments for breast cancer were worse than the disease itself, 17 while three studies reported reluctance among African-American women to have surgery.
Despite a grim prognosis, this bias prompts patients to believe treatment can cure them.
Thomas Truss, a Baltimore psychologist who has nearly four decades of experience dealing with addiction, believes treatment well beyond the peer support offered by Gamblers Anonymous is required for problem gamblers.
He believes treatment should continue until symptoms disappear.
However, we believe treatment outcome in adenoid cystic carcinoma still leaves room for improvement.
Combining these properties, we believe treatment of ODs in the ankle joint should primarily aim at repair of the subchondral bone, and secondarily at coverage by fibrocartilaginous tissue.
Although scientists do not know if the same underlying mechanisms cause these problems in both groups, they believe treatments developed for one may help the other.
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