Cancer Treatment at the End of Life
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Too often, people with incurable cancers pursue therapy beyond any hope of benefit — except, perhaps, to the pockets of Big…
Too often, people with incurable cancers pursue therapy beyond any hope of benefit — except, perhaps, to the pockets of Big…
By Rebecca Gagne HendersonI was inspired to write this after reading the series of posts on Pallimed titled “Against Euphemisms…
by: Elizabeth Dzeng, @LizDzeng As ethicists like to point out, what is the law is not always ethical and what is ethical is not…
by: Danny Cox (@dannyMD)The goal of palliative chemotherapy for patients with terminal cancer is to prolong survival and…
By David Kudlowitz…
“In reality, only 2 major reasons exist for administering chemotherapy to most patients with metastatic cancer: to help them…
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Holly G. Prigerson, Ph.D. Irving Sherwood Wright Professor in Geriatrics Professor of…
Terminal cancer patients sometimes get chemotherapy in the belief that it will ease their symptoms. But a study finds that many…
Jay Westcott/For The Washington…
Chemotherapy has saved countless lives and is a mainstay of cancer care. But the latest data suggests that it can also do more…
Treating terminally ill cancer patients with chemotherapy in the months or weeks before their deaths was not found to improve…