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 ...

Financial Conflicts of Interest: Payment at the Expense of Patients? In the article that accompanies this editorial, Weisse et al 11 present new findings about residential hospice care for patients ...

Ex-vivo tumor resection and auto-transplantation: A single-institutional long-term experience. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a ...

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 ...

One of the most important advances in palliative care in oncology over the past 15 years has been the recognition that palliative care specialists can improve cancer patients’ outcomes well before ...

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 ...

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 ...

When doctors integrate palliative care into presurgical planning, more people who went in for cancer-related surgery were able to put advanced directives in place. In the study, the researchers ...

One of the most important advances in palliative care in oncology over the past 15 years has been the recognition that palliative care specialists can improve cancer patients' outcomes well before ...

Doctors may offer people with stomach cancer the opportunity to have surgery. This can help to remove the cancer or prevent complications and reduce the side effects of the disease. If the cancer has ...