Annonce des résultats en médecine nucléaire: enjeux et réflexions.« Informer le patient, ce n'est pas l'obliger à entendre, ais le préparer à comprendre » - Article 7 de la charte du GT Ethique de la SFMN

摘要

Announcing ant delivering results to patients from nuclear medicine tests, and particularly with PET imaging, can vary profoundly from a department to another, even from a physician to another. French regulation regarding patients' information and access to their health data as well as the National Cancer Institute's (Institut national du cancer-INCa) most recent recommendations concerning cancer announcement ask all medical imaging specialists (nuclear medicine physicians and radiologists) to be more implicated in the announcement process. Moreover, and above all legal considerations, it is ethically difficult to refuse any kind of medical communication to a demanding patient and let that patient, sometimes alone, discover the results without any kind of medical comments from the specialist who wrote the report. Such heterogeneity is real and must therefore be understood and explored. The arguments given by physicians who do not give results or who are not implicated in cancer announcement are analyzed in a non-dogmatic fashion to find concrete answers to patients' legitimate expectancies. (C) 2020 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.