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 ...

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 ...

Almost half of all Medicare enrollees with cancer nearing end of life receive aggressive overtreatment as opposed to supportive palliative or hospice care, according to a study published Feb. 21 in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Carol and Rachel say there's one regret that they see the most often ...

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 ...

When Vandana Gupta was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1993, she realised the treatment process of cancer can be ...