Occupational therapy plays a vital role in palliative care by providing person-centred interventions that facilitate engagement in daily activities and promote quality of life for patients with ...

Uncertainty persists about the value of palliative radiation, particularly longer regimens, among patients with high-grade gliomas. To address the uncertainty, investigators administered quality of ...

MPS Art Therapy presents a lecture on palliative care, a rapidly growing field of medicine that is particularly well-suited for collaboration with art therapists. In this virtual presentation, Ian ...

Targeting tumor infiltrating myeloid cells to inhibit tumor progression in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not ...

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) recently published an updated clinical guideline that underscores the safety and effectiveness of palliative radiation therapy (RT) for treating ...

Of course being diagnosed with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) feels overwhelming. Between juggling treatments, managing symptoms and side effects, and dealing with the anxiety of a ...

Palliative care is the interdisciplinary medical specialty of caring for people with serious and often terminal illnesses. Its aim is to improve quality of life for such patients and their families, ...

133/141 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011 MPS Art Therapy faculty member Emery Hurst Mikel explores how art therapy can be used within the worlds of hospice and palliative care to help both the ...

This retrospective cohort study used linked registry and claims data on men who were diagnosed with stage IV M0 or stage IV M1b prostate cancer between 2005 and 2009, with associated claims from 2005 ...

Music therapy can enhance terminally ill patients' wellbeing and relaxation. This treatment has been known since the 1970s, but there is little scientific research on the subject. A recent randomized ...

Tobias Loetscher received funding from the Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation for this project. Gregory Crawford has received funding from the NHMRC, the MRFF and Cancer Australia. People ...