Ietje Perfors

24 Chapter 2 of comfort and satisfaction. 12 We demonstrated earlier that a cancer related GP consultation before treatment decision may improve the SDM process of palliatively treated cancer patients according to patients, GPs and treating physicians. 13 Despite this broadly shared call for more GP involvement in the process of making cancer treatment decisions, little is known about the patients’ perspective. Therefore, we aimed to explore patients’ needs for GP involvement after a cancer diagnosis in general, specifically in SDM after a cancer diagnosis and whether these needs are met.