Serious Illness Communication Project

Inclusion Criteria

• •The subjects of this study will be the clinicians (physicians and nurse practitioners) conducting the SICG conversations, their patient with high-risk cancers, and a friend or family member of the patient.
• •1. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute medical oncology clinician
• •2. Care for patients with selected high-risk cancers
• •1. Over 18 years of age
• •2. English speaker
• •3. Patient at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, including satellite sites at Milford Regional Medical Center and South Shore Hospital
• •4. Diagnosis of one of the following high mortality or advanced cancers: breast, gastric, intestinal, esophageal, pancreatic, biliary, colorectal, hepatocellular, head and neck, renal, bladder, prostate, acute myeloid lymphoma (AML), acute lymphoblastic lymphoma (ALL), lymphoma, melanoma, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), sarcoma, and lung.
• •5. Ability to provide consent
• •1. Over 18 years of age
• •2. English speaker
• •3. Friend or family member of study patient (Health care proxy, or close friend or family member who is involved in helping the patient think about decisions related to their health care)
• •4. Ability to provide consent