Palliative care — which focuses on quality of life — did not significantly improve outcomes in patients when delivered at the point of oncology surgery, highlighting the need to better understand when ...

One of the most important advances in palliative care in oncology over the past 15 years has been the recognition that palliative care specialists can improve cancer patients' outcomes well before ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The specialist intervention failed to produce significant improvements in quality-of-life scores or OS. Early ...

When doctors integrate palliative care into presurgical planning, more people who went in for cancer-related surgery were able to put advanced directives in place. In the study, the researchers ...

UnityPoint is expanding its specialty care services by opening three new clinics, including plastic surgery, in the Waukee ...

New Delhi ; RGCIRC (Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre), in association with the Indian Medical Association (IMA ...

Results of a randomized controlled trial do not support routine integration of specialty palliative care among patients undergoing major surgery for cancer with curative intent. The trial did not show ...

Your healthcare partners are committed to providing you with the most up-to-date and timely therapies and interventions to treat breast cancer. One of these interventions is palliative care, also ...

One of the most important advances in palliative care in oncology over the past 15 years has been the recognition that palliative care specialists can improve cancer patients' outcomes well before ...

"Providers are hopefully becoming more aware and are better able to share with patients that the word ‘palliative’ can actually suggest the availability of treatment options that can help to improve ...

Surgery for gallbladder cancer can be successful at removing cancer cells, particularly when doctors diagnose the cancer at an early stage and the person is in otherwise good health. Gallbladder ...