{"id":7520,"date":"2025-10-11T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/breast-cancer-treatment-options-refusal-oncologist\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:02:19","slug":"breast-cancer-treatment-options-refusal-oncologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/breast-cancer-treatment-options-refusal-oncologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: When patients don\u2019t want to treat their cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: When patients don\u2019t want to treat their cancer<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/10\/08\/breast-cancer-treatment-options-support-oncologists-refusal\/\"><em>\u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d episode<\/em><\/a> with Joy Lisi Rankin and Samyukta Mullangi about decision-making around breast cancer treatment. Be sure to sign up for the weekly \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/first-opinion-podcast\/id1550788298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3y7p5nBy5fRV5ixzDRf1HC?si=17cf5dc3f94547e6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get alerts about each new episode by signing up for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/?newsletters=first_opinion_podcast#podcasts\">\u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d newsletter<\/a>. And don\u2019t forget to sign up for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/first-opinion\/\">First Opinion newsletter<\/a>, delivered every Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Torie Bosch: <\/strong>What do you do if a loved one refuses treatment for cancer? Or what if you\u2019re an oncologist whose patient doesn\u2019t want to be treated?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/10\/11\/breast-cancer-treatment-options-refusal-oncologist\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Torie Bosch<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/10\/11\/breast-cancer-treatment-options-refusal-oncologist\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: When patients don\u2019t want to treat their cancer Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the\u00a0\u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d episode with Joy Lisi Rankin and Samyukta Mullangi about decision-making around breast cancer treatment. Be sure to sign up for the weekly \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d on\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get alerts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2159,2143,3951,2313],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-7520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-first-opinion","category-first-opinion-podcast","category-patients","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}