If you have cancer, you might benefit from palliative care — a type of treatment that focuses on improving quality of life. This type of supportive care is considered a whole-body approach. It ...

We thank El-Jawahri et al 1 for their interesting paper, which raises important issues regarding the challenges for implementation of and research on palliative care interventions among patients with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Palliative care — also known as supportive care or symptom management — is administered at the time of diagnosis ...

For people living with serious and terminal illnesses, there are a number of care options available. However, there is a great deal of misunderstanding and misconceptions about what certain types of ...

Palliative care has received increasing attention at the ASCO Annual Meeting since the publication of its “Provisional Clinical Opinion: The Integration of Palliative Care Into Standard Oncology Care” ...

Over 12,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year in the USA alone and, despite advances in both treatment and supportive care, more than 2,000 of these children will die of cancer-related ...

Good palliative care should not be confined to specialist teams, said the minister. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

Palliative care is an effective strategy to improve the quality of care and quality of life for seriously ill individuals while reducing the cost of care for these patients. Palliative care services ...

Many professionals in oncology associate palliative care with end-of-life care. While it is true that one type of palliative care, hospice, is for patients in the last months of life, palliative care ...

Palliative care suffers from an identity problem. Seventy percent of Americans describe themselves as “not at all knowledgeable” about palliative care, and most health care professionals believe it is ...