Most cancer patients die in hospital [1]. The care of terminally ill patients often falls to junior
doctors or nurses who will have had little specific training in the care of the dying. Relatively …

EFFECTIVENESS OF SPECIALIZED PALLIATIVE CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH
ADVANCED CANCER Camilla CU Zimmermann A thesis submitted in con Page 1 …

Palliative chemotherapy is increasingly used in cancer patients near end of life. With the
development of newer anticancer agents which have less side effects and higher expected …

Palliative care is warranted from the time of diagnosis of incurable cancer. From this early
stage, palliative care consists of general palliative care provided by cancer specialists and …

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

Over the past decade, a large body of evidence has accumulated supporting the integration
of palliative care into oncology practice for patients with advanced cancer. The question is …

Objective To examine the impact of oncologist awareness of palliative care (PC), the
intervention of the PC team (PCT) and multidisciplinary decision-making on three quality …

In the long term, about 75% of all cancer patients will need palliative care, but the curricula
in courses of study leading to qualifications in the caring professions take no account of this …

Patients living with a diagnosis of an advanced life-limiting malignancy often have concerns
regarding symptom burden, physical and psychosocial impact on life, and questions …

Background The benefit of early integration of palliative care into oncological care is
suggested to be due to increased psychosocial support. In Belgium, psychosocial care is …