Palliative Care News

Extraordinary therapeutic advances, a renewed bipartisan commitment to medical research and the launch of the national cancer moonshot initiative have reinforced the importance of scientific investigation in the fight against cancer.

Caregivers of patients with cancer who had a higher caregiving intensity were likely to experience poor self-care, which in turn lead to anxiety, depression and worse quality of life, according to study results presented at the Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium.

Earlier initiation of palliative care improved quality of life and coping abilities of patients with advanced lung and gastrointestinal cancers, according to study results presented at the Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium.

The national cancer moonshot initiative’s blue ribbon panel delivered 10 recommendations to form a 5-year research blueprint to accelerate progress against cancer at the NCI’s National Cancer Advisory Board meeting.

Informal caregivers for patients with cancer tended to report a higher burden and spent more hours per week caregiving than caregivers of patients with other illnesses, according to study results presented at the Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium.

One-third of “mystery shopper” callers received limited or inaccurate information regarding palliative care services offered at NCI–designated cancer centers, according to study results presented at the Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium.

Healio.com/HemOnc has launched In the Journals Plus, a new feature that will provide busy physicians with summaries of the top articles from leading journals in hematology and oncology.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has announced several actions on marijuana classification and research, as well as hemp cultivation, the agency stated in a press release.

Progress has been made across the United States to pass and implement legislative solutions to prevent and fight cancer, according to an American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network report.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has retained its distinction as the No. 1 cancer hospital in the country.