[Current Status and Challenges of Advance Care Planning in Cancer Patients].

ABSTRACT

Awareness of the importance of advance care planning(ACP)to archive individual patients' end-of-life wishes has been spreading. The aim of this review is to summarize recent studies on the effects of ACP, and also provides a narrative summary of the practical challenges raised by ACP. We consider that it is important to assess patients' readiness to participate in ACPby discussing prognostic understanding, patients' personal value and denial mechanisms to cope.