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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARTEMIDE-Gastric01: A phase 3 randomized study of rilvegostomig with fluoropyrimidine and trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) as first-line (1L) treatment for locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive ...

Ovarian cancer is very treatable when you catch it at an early stage. But because this cancer often doesn't show symptoms early on, most people don’t get a diagnosis until they're already at a late ...