Shared decision making with breast cancer patients: impact on patient engagement and fear of recurrence. Protocol for a Danish randomized trial in radiotherapy (DBCG RT SDM).

In the article, the authors present the Danish Breast Cancer Group (DBCG) study protocol for the national, randomized controlled trial on shared decision making (SDM) and patient decision aids (PtDA) with breast cancer patients. Other topics include the potential benefits of PtDAs like enhanced patient engagement in decision making, and the standard primary treatments of early breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) like surgery and adjuvant treatment.