Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), which accounts for more than 90% of all
pancreatic tumours, is a devastating malignancy with an extremely poor prognosis, as …

Background Prognosis is a key driver of clinical decision-making. However, available
prognostication tools have limited accuracy and variable levels of validation. Methods …

Purpose To provide evidence-based recommendations to update the American Society of
Clinical Oncology guideline on systemic therapy for stage IV non–small-cell lung cancer …

Purpose To determine how prognostic conversations influence perceptions of life
expectancy (LE), distress, and the patient-physician relationship among patients with …

Objective: Palliative care aims to improve cancer patients' quality of life through expert
symptom management, psychosocial and spiritual care, patient-clinician communication …

Purpose: Patients with hematologic malignancies are less likely to receive specialist
palliative care services than patients with solid tumors. Reasons for this difference are poorly …

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to symptom management, psychosocial
support, and assistance in treatment decision-making for patients with serious illness and …

Background. Sympathetic and frank communication about the terminal nature of advanced
cancer is important to improve patients' prognostic understanding and, thereby, to allow for …

There is evidence from some countries of a trend towards increasingly aggressive
pharmacological treatment of patients with advanced, incurable cancer. To what extent …

Little is known about how patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT)
and their family caregivers (FC) perceive their prognosis. We examined prognostic …