Building on Individual, State, and Federal Initiatives for Advance Care Planning, an Integral Component of Palliative and End-of-Life Cancer Care Palliative medicine is now a recognized medical ...

Common symptoms that palliative care teams see in patients with metastatic breast cancer include pain, menopausal symptoms, ...

A routine blood test can predict how long cancer patients in palliative care will survive, researchers report at the ESMO Asia 2016 Congress in Singapore. "Cancer patients in palliative care want ...

Palliative care for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) helps you deal with the physical, emotional, and spiritual issues related to your cancer and its treatments. This type of care doesn't slow or ...

Palliative care physicians are trained to prevent and ease suffering for people who have serious illnesses or who need end-of-life care. Most health care providers focus on diagnosing and treating ...

Empowering social workers to discuss advance care planning with older patients with cancer could improve documentation of goals, focus treatment decisions and reduce burdens on oncologists and the ...

Palliative care isn’t always a part of just end-of-life care. It can be used at any point if you have incurable cancer to improve your quality of life. Some cancer treatments are curative, while ...

Most people move through life assuming there will be time later to slow down and reflect. Big decisions are postponed, ...

Background Patients and families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds face distinct challenges ...

Hospice and palliative care both aim to minimize discomfort from serious illnesses. However, there are key differences between the two. The key difference between the two types of care is that, in ...