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How to maintain autonomy when family wants to control your medical decisions

My family keeps trying to take over my cancer treatment decisions and I understand they're terrified but I need to be the one making choices about my body. When we all go to appointments together it becomes about managing their emotions instead of me getting the information I need from my doctors.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Well-meaning family interference is preventing the patient from developing their own relationship with their healthcare team and treatment choices.

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