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 …

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 …

Background: Palliative care is recommended along with oncologic care for patients with
advanced cancer. However, there are limited data about how the timing of palliative care …

This paper investigates the impact and non-linear effects of urbanization on health care
expenditure in China. The results indicate that urbanization in both Eastern and Central …

Answer questions and earn CME/CNE The increasing prevalence of patients living with
cancer in conjunction with the rapid progress in cancer therapy will lead to a growing …

Background: Liquid biopsy (LB) can detect actionable genomic alterations in plasma
circulating tumor circulating tumor DNA beyond tissue testing (TT) alone in advanced non …

Palliative care, unlike hospice, can be utilized concurrently with disease‐modifying or
curative therapies. Some of the benefits of palliative care include improved quality of life …

Three models that received Health Care Innovation Awards from the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) aimed to reduce the cost and use of health care services and …

Objective End‐of‐life care for patients with cancer is often overly burdensome, and palliative
and hospice care are underutilized. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the …

Background Surgical resection is typically necessary for curative-intent treatment of most
solid organ cancers. However, even with meticulous preoperative evaluation, operative …