Mori M, et al. - In this randomized, video-vignette study, researchers determined the influences of explicit prognostic communication on patients with cancer recurrence. Participants were 105 Japanese women (mean ± SD age, 53.8 ± 8.2 years) with breast cancer who had undergone curative surgery. The participants were asked to view videos of prognostic communication between a patient with recurrent, incurable breast cancer and her oncologist. The only difference in the videos was the presence or absence of explicit prognostic disclosure. Significantly lower uncertainty and higher satisfaction, with no increased anxiety, were observed among participants after they viewed the video with more vs less explicit disclosure. This implies that better outcomes were prompted by explicit prognostic disclosure vs nondisclosure in Japanese women with breast cancer.