Palliative Care News

Health care institutions and their staffs must take action to ensure bereavement care shifts from “an afterthought to a public health priority,” according to a position paper published in The Lancet Public Health.

As healers, we are most comfortable and confident when we can rely on the long-established armamentarium of countless medications created by the American pharmaceutical industry.

Oncologic treatment of adults with various metastatic or advanced solid tumors may not improve OS and could be detrimental to quality of life, according to findings published in JAMA Oncology.

AI could have the ability to answer some patient questions on cancer instead of clinicians, reducing clinician burdens and improving access to care, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

As part of routine screening for financial hardship, clinicians should discuss an individual’s employment, access to paid leave and health insurance coverage when constructing a treatment plan relating to cancer care.

Palliative care significantly improved quality of life among patients hospitalized for bone marrow transplant, according to results of a multicenter randomized trial.

More than one-third of patients and one-fourth of patient caregivers favor focusing on symptom management of advanced cancers over life extension, according to study findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Calcium and vitamin D supplementation decreased cancer mortality among postmenopausal women after more than 2 decades of follow-up but increased CVD mortality, researchers found.

As the broader health care field strives to identify and address health care disparities, a commentary published in The Lancet Oncology underscored the importance of eliminating ableism from cancer care.

Patients with gastrointestinal cancers face ongoing racial/ethnicity-based disparities in end-of-life pain management, specifically in terms of access to and utilization of opioids, study results showed.