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Donna L. Berry, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, Director, Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing & Patient Care Services, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses decision support for men with localized prostate cancer.
Berry says there is a need to understand how these men are getting their information and to determine the best time to deliver intervention. At Dana-Farber, the intervention intends to prepare a man for the “options talk” with their physician.
Berry and her team are looking into delivering information to men immediately after their diagnosis. Berry says Dana-Farber has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Nursing Research to deploy the intervention in large health networks.
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