Abstract:The stoma care nurse specialist's role involves caring for patients who have had stoma-forming surgery for a variety of different conditions including bowel cancer. In this article, Julie Barwell investigates issues of truth telling in cancer care and reviews questions regarding should be the first to be told about a patient's illness and whether patients and families want to know even when the news is not good.
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