Palliative Care News

Patients with advanced cancers frequently interpreted their prognoses differently from their oncologists, according to the results of a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Oncology.

Approximately one in 12 patients with a common primary tumor were diagnosed with a second primary malignancy between 1992 and 2008, according to results of a SEER analysis.

Fox Chase Cancer Center announced three staff appointments.

Delirium occurs frequently but appears underdiagnosed in patients with advanced cancer who presented in the ED, according to the results of a randomized observational study.

A nationwide cohort of hematologic oncologists deemed a majority of standard oncology end-of-life measures appropriate for patients with blood cancers, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Olanzapine significantly improved nausea prevention among previously untreated patients receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy, according to the results of a double blind phase 3 trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Cancer treatment centers in the United States spent $173 million on advertising in the year 2014, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The National Institute of Nursing Research released new evidence-based materials to help support and care for family members of children with serious illnesses.

Systemic inflammation was associated with poorer quality of life among patients with advanced cancer independent of performance status, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Nancy E. Davidson, MD, director of University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, took over as president of the American Association for Cancer Research this spring.