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 …

Palliative care has evolved over the past five decades as an interprofessional specialty to
improve quality of life and quality of care for patients with cancer and their families. Existing …

Advance care planning originally focused on the completion of advance directives and tries
to address this need by preparing patients for decision-making …

Advanced cancer, with its considerable physical symptoms and psychosocial burdens,
represents an existential threat and major stressor to patients and their caregivers. In …

Background: Aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care is associated with lower quality of life and
greater regret about treatment decisions. Higher EOL costs are also associated with lower …

The evidence base demonstrating the benefits of an early focus on palliative care for
patients with serious cancers, including advanced lung cancer, is substantial. Early …

The delivery of palliative care to patients with advanced cancer and their families, whether
done by oncology clinicians or palliative care clinicians, requires patient-centered …

Background In advanced cancer, patients want to know how their care options may affect
survival and quality of life, but the impact of outpatient specialty palliative care on these …

Background: Studies show that early, integrated palliative care (PC) improves quality of life
(QoL) and end-of-life (EoL) care for patients with poor-prognosis cancers. However, the …

Purpose Patients with advanced cancer commonly visit the emergency department (ED)
during the last 3 months of life. Identification of these patients and their palliative care needs …