Treatment priorities in advanced cancer shift from disease prevention to comfort and quality of life as patients approach end of life. A significant percentage of patients continue taking potentially ...

Patients who received narrative-based palliative care also reported better quality of life, improved sleep quality, and greater acceptance of death compared with patients receiving routine care. These ...

Guilt and shame – not hope for recovery – are among the most common reasons terminally ill cancer patients continue with minimally beneficial treatments at the end of life, according to Rutgers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of aggressive end-of-life cancer treatment has not changed over the past decade. Physician and institutional ...

It can feel like every top cancer center has the same PR pitch: a promise of “patient centered” care delivered with a “team approach.” I’m grateful that medicine predicated on the infallibility of ...

May 3, 2007 — For patients with advanced cancer, aggressive treatment in the last week of life is linked to a worse quality of death and less likelihood of dying in the place of the patient's choice, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patients with cancer nearing the end of their lives are facing stark inequalities in care, a study suggests. Researchers found ...

A recent retrospective study found that earlier outpatient palliative care referrals for patients with advanced cancer were associated with a small increase in overall emergency department (ED) visits ...

The National Inpatient Sample (NIS) was queried between 2016 and 2020 for hospitalizations with esophageal cancer that ended with inpatient death. The primary EoL outcomes that were identified include ...

Patients who receive aggressive anti-cancer treatments near the end of life are more likely to end up in the emergency department and less likely to elect hospice, according to a new study published ...