Palliative Care News

A bedside visual art intervention improved mood while reducing pain and anxiety among patients with hematologic malignancies, according to study results.

Chairside yoga can reduce pain, fatigue, anxiety and distress among individuals with cancer who undergo infusion therapy, according to study results presented at Association of Community Cancer Centers National Oncology Conference.

Oncologists spend significantly less time discussing goals of cancer care with minority patients vs. nonminority patients, according to a study presented at the Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium.

Patients with metastatic solid tumors who used an artificial intelligence-based smartphone app reported significantly reduced pain and had fewer hospital admissions, according to results of a randomized controlled trial presented at Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium.

Palliative care appeared to reduce the risk for suicide among a cohort of more than 20,000 U.S. veterans with advanced-stage lung cancer, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Individuals treated with opioids for cancer pain may be at risk for aberrant drug behaviors, including misuse and addiction, study results suggest.

Patients who died within 1 year of undergoing inpatient allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation often received medically intense end-of-life care that may not have matched their wishes, according to a retrospective population-based analysis.

Individuals with cancer appeared 10 times less likely than the general population to die as a result of opioid use, according to retrospective study results presented at ASCO Quality Care Symposium.

Men with cancer appeared three times less likely than women with cancer to consider palliative care, according to study results.

Physicians who received no palliative care training appeared considerably more likely to recommend major surgical interventions for patients with advanced cancer, according to study results published in Surgery.