Introduction: How to perform a breaking bad news consultation properly with the present circumstancesand especially it fits the local people. The way to deliver bad news to cancer patients was studied andpracticed widely in the world. Some studies were conducted in Vietnam but not yet in central Vietnam. Thepeople here are quite different in thinking and personality. Hence, they may need and expect consultationdifferently. The study was performed to note the needs of patients in the breaking bad news of cancer andto explore their own experience of giving bad news.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 44 cancer patients undergoing treatment at theHue University of Medicine and Pharmacy hospital in July 2020.Results: Of 44 patients, The age average was 56.73. Male was more prevalent in the study with 61.4%.About 45.5% of patients expected to be explained in a private room and most of them desired to hear thetruth at the same time with their family ( 68.2%), only 4.5% of patients wanted the bad news to be deliveredonly to their families. One hundred percent of patients preferred their oncologists to explain the bad news.More than 80% of patients wanted you received all at once. Patients were interested in getting informationabout the diagnosis of cancer, stage of cancer, cost of the treatment, treatment option to be selected andresults of clinical studies were less important to them. They mostly wanted the truth to be delivered to themthan to the family for most of the information contents given by the researchers.Conclusions: Patients in the study wanted to know the truth but some information was more importantthan others according to them. They mostly satisfied with the breaking bad news that has been done.