Background: Many cancer patients do not receive recommended palliative care (PC).
Oncologists' perspectives about PC have not been adequately described qualitatively and …

With prognostic indicators at hand, toss a coin. Half of all patients with cancer might be
predicted to die as a result of the disease within 5 years. Ask yourself whether an individual …

Patients, families and physicians benefit from shared care concepts of oncology and
specialized palliative care. Although this concept is already becoming increasingly …

Background: Early palliative care provides better quality of life, increased prognostic
awareness, and even improved survival for patients with advanced cancer but how the …

EDITORIALS become part of all arms of any randomised trial of advanced cancer treatment,
particularly when a new treatment is being compared with best supportive care or current …

Palliative care has received increasing attention at the American Society of Clinical
Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting since the publication of its provisional clinical opinion on …

Opinion statement As palliative care (PC) continues its rapid growth, an emerging body of
evidence is demonstrating that its approach of interdisciplinary supportive care benefits …

The early integration of specialist palliative care has been shown to benefit the quality of life
of patients with advanced cancer. In order to explore whether other seriously ill people and …

In 1990, Woods et al.[1] published a trial of cisplatin with vindesine versus supportive care
only in advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Although the overall survival …

Background: Early integration of palliative care in oncology practice (“simultaneous care”,
SC) has been shown to provide better care resulting in improved quality-of-life and also …