Palliative care — which focuses on quality of life — did not significantly improve outcomes in patients when delivered at the point of oncology surgery, highlighting the need to better understand when ...

A new program has been launched that sets quality standards for surgical decision-making for the oldest old. The results may shift the need from step-down post-surgical care to palliative care for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The specialist intervention failed to produce significant improvements in quality-of-life scores or OS. Early ...

Older adults with serious illness before elective surgery are at double the risk of extended hospital stays, readmissions, emergency department visits and costs, a new study has found. Targeting four ...

Reviewed by Eleonora Teplinsky, MD, Head of Breast Medical Oncology at Valley Health System in Paramus, New Jersey, Clinical Assistant Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York ...

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Although receiving palliative care improves the overall care experience of high-risk surgery patients and their families, only one-third of these patients in a recent study received a palliative care ...

Results of a randomized controlled trial do not support routine integration of specialty palliative care among patients undergoing major surgery for cancer with curative intent. The trial did not show ...

The study, presented at the Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer Symposium, found that palliative surgery in patients with advanced cancers can relieve pain with minimal morbidity. Palliative surgery ...

We aimed to determine the role of palliative resection in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) and ascertain which patient populations would benefit most from this treatment. A total of 1015 patients ...

Surgery for gallbladder cancer can be successful at removing cancer cells, particularly when doctors diagnose the cancer at an early stage and the person is in otherwise good health. Gallbladder ...