Background Assessment of prognostic awareness (PA) in patients with advanced cancer is
challenging because patient responses often indicate their hopes. The objectives of this …

Background: Prognostic awareness among patients with advanced cancer is important for
better palliative and end-of-life care. However, the relationships between prognostic …

Although caregivers of patients with multiple myeloma (MM) play a critical role in supporting
their loved ones throughout the illness course, studies examining caregiver quality of life …

Purpose Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating neuro-oncologic disease with invariably poor
prognosis. Despite this, research shows patients have unrealistic perceptions of their …

Objectives When patients make cancer treatment decisions, they consider the needs and
preferences of family caregivers and clinicians. We examined how much all three triad …

Background: Advanced cancer patients need an accurate understanding of their prognoses
in order to engage in informed end-of-life care treatment decision-making. Latino cancer …

Despite the use of aggressive multimodality therapies, the prognosis of brain tumor patients
remains poor. Tumors of glial origin typically have the worst prognosis, with a predicted …

When high-grade gliomas recur, patients, their families, and clinicians face difficult medical
decisions. There is no curable treatment, and the treatment options all come with a risk of …

Background The development of brain metastases (BM) is one of the most feared
complications of cancer due to the substantial neurocognitive morbidity and a grim …

Background: Occurring in up to 40% of all patients with cancer, the incidence of brain tumors
has caused limited survival, a high psychosocial burden, and an increase in the loss of …