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Tailoring palliative care visits to patients’ needs saves resources without harm
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Tailoring palliative care visits to patients’ needs saves resources without harm

  • Janet Fricker
  • 13 June 2024

Stepped palliative care, with visits occurring only at key points in the patient’s cancer journey, resulted in fewer palliative care visits than conventional early palliative care. The study, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, held May…

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Rise in initiation of immunotherapy at the end of life
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Rise in initiation of immunotherapy at the end of life

  • Janet Fricker
  • 26 January 2024

Immunotherapy is increasingly being initiated in the month prior to death in patients with stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer, melanoma, and renal cell carcinoma. The US study, published in JAMA Oncology, online January 4, showed the practice was more common…

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Prognostic biomarkers: could they help doctors, patients and families to better navigate the end of life?
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Prognostic biomarkers: could they help doctors, patients and families to better navigate the end of life?

  • Janet Fricker
  • 7 August 2020

“We had to explain that the reason she had broken her hip was because she was getting weaker and essentially dying… At that stage knowing whether Mum had days or months left would have been an important factor.” Helen Waddell,…

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What we know, and ignore, of pediatric palliative care
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What we know, and ignore, of pediatric palliative care

  • Alessia De Chiara
  • 14 April 2020

In discussing palliative care, it has often been asked whether quality of time was important like quantity of life, if not more. And, when patients are children, the answer can become very complex. «If the goal of palliative care is…

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