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of the American Cancer Society, a Swedish team composed of a psychiatrist, a surgeon and a social worker offered statistical evidence to support the conclusion that telling the patient the truth “need by no means be an overwhelming shock, and may even be of positive value to the patient during the further course of the disease.” After careful psychiatric examination of 90 inoperable cancer patients at the University of Lund’s department of surgery, the research team decided to tell 38 of the patients the true nature of their illness. Most accepted the news calmly, or had only small doubts