I *always ask cancer patients with advanced disease what their oncologist told them about their prognosis. They never seem to know. I wonder if it is denial, or if the oncologist is just being coy/optimistic.https://twitter.com/FastestSurgeon/status/1103490759137918977 …
Its better for relatives who live with it for years and decades, often angry and confused about why their spouse died so fast when they had hope otherwise. Its a bad culture, a hangover from times when cancer was a mystery. It isn't now