BJU international
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To assess patients' preferences about how physicians' deliver news of a prostate cancer diagnosis, and patients' preferred participation in medical decision-making, with a secondary objective being to validate the Measure of Patients' Preferences (MPP) scale with these patients. ⋯ Men have expectations about how physicians disclose a diagnosis of prostate cancer and how they wish to participate in making treatment decisions. These results underline the importance of identifying patient preferences before embarking on treatment discussions, as the way 'bad news' is disclosed has previously been identified as a predictor of the outcome of the patient-physician interview.