Background: Patient/clinician communication is critical to quality cancer care at the end-of-
life (EOL). Yet discussions about systemic therapy discontinuation or hospice as a care …

Background: Growing evidence demonstrates the benefits of early, integrated palliative care
(PC) for patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers. Yet, data are lacking on the …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to describe family caregivers' perspectives of the
final month of life of patients with advanced cancer, particularly whether and how …

Context: Prognosis communication is one hypothesized mechanism by which effective
palliative care (PC) promotes preference-concordant treatment near end of life (EOL), but …

Abstract End of Life Aggressive cancer treatments for patients with a terminal disease can be
clinically ineffective and cause unnecessary pain and suffering at the end of life (EOL) …

Background: Individuals with advanced cancer and their families have negative end-of-life
experiences when the care they receive is not aligned with their values and preferences …

Objective: Cancer patients and family members can feel abandoned by their oncologist at
the transition to end-of-life (eoL) care. In this study, we evaluated the level of satisfaction of …

Background: Communication about prognosis is a key ingredient of effective palliative care.
When patients with advanced cancer develop increased prognostic understanding, there is …

Importance Early discussion of end-of-life (EOL) care preferences improves clinical
outcomes and goal-concordant care. However, most EOL discussions occur approximately 1 …

Purpose: Existing recommendations for communicating with patients with metastatic cancer
about redefining goals of care when anticancer treatment is unlikely to provide benefit are …