A systematic review of physicians' survival predictions in terminally ill cancer patients

By Paul Glare, Kiran Virik, Mark Jones, Malcolm Hudson, Steffen Eychmuller, John Simes, Nicholas Christakis. British medical journal, 2003

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Aggressiveness of cancer care near the end of life: is it a quality-of-care issue? (2008, background): “Physicians tend to overestimate survival and consequently may not realize that the end of life is approaching for their patients, although their predictions are highly correlated with actual survival.(37) Several clinical scales exist, all with limitations, that provide marginal improvements over cl”
Glioblastoma survival in the United States before and during the temozolomide era (2012, background): “Studies have consistently shown that clinicians overestimate survival in patients with terminal cancer, and that this tendency may diminish patient and family preparedness for death [12, 13].”