If you've battled cancer in your lifetime (or are battling it now), have you agreed with everything you've been shown and told from your physicians and oncologist? Most likely, you have not -- for various reasons. But, should you?

There is new research showing that cancer patients in an advanced state who disagree with their physicians actually have a higher chance of dying when the subjects of nutrition and physical condition come up. While certain nutrition philosophies are pretty much agreed upon in the cancer prevention field, are these disagreements happening due to denial or some other reason?

Long-term cancer outcomes were found to be affected by patient-doctor agreements, with the a researcher on this study saying that "patients disagreed with their clinicians greater than 50 percent of the time." Why is this? From those who have battled cancer, I'd be very interested to hear reasons why so many disagreements end up happening.