Background: This study sought to inductively derive core themes of religion and/or
spirituality (R/S) active in patients' experiences of advanced cancer to inform the …

The will to live is a natural instinct experienced by all human beings. It tends to persist in
humans, despite marked adversity such as that associated with advanced cancer. The will to …

The meeting with the family of a hospitalized patient dying with advanced cancer or
hematologic disease in which the limitation of life-sustaining interventions is discussed can …

Modern medicine owes many of its founding principles to a spiritual heritage. However,
passage through the Enlightenment and entry into a secular, pluralistic health context have …

Patients, families and healthcare professionals become part of a process that aims to
embrace a unique 'world': the patients' subjectivity, his or her own needs and resources …

The goal of this update in hospice and palliative care is to identify, summarize, and critique
journal articles published (electronically or in print) between January 1, 2009 and December …

Communication is crucial to effective end-of-life decision making in the ICU. 1 Honest
discussions about prognosis enable ethically appropriate, autonomous decisions. Families …

TO THE EDITOR: Balboni et al1 report that patients with advanced cancer whose spiritual
needs are met by the medical team have greater odds of receiving hospice care at the end …

We agree with van Laarhoven et al1 that a limitation of our study is the undefined content of
the religious/spiritual support provided by medical caregivers. As has been noted in our …