Common symptoms that palliative care teams see in patients with metastatic breast cancer include pain, menopausal symptoms, ...

For people living with serious and terminal illnesses, there are a number of care options available. However, there is a great deal of misunderstanding and misconceptions about what certain types of ...

The term “palliative care” has a negative connotation and may act as a barrier to early patient referrals. Rebranding has thus been proposed as a strategy to reduce the negative perceptions associated ...

Chemotherapy and Targeted Therapy for Women With Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Negative (or unknown) Advanced Breast Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice ...

Palliative care, by contrast, is a relatively new medical specialty whose importance has grown immensely in the twenty-first century. 2 The WHO defines palliative care as “an approach that improves ...

Many professionals in oncology associate palliative care with end-of-life care. While it is true that one type of palliative care, hospice, is for patients in the last months of life, palliative care ...

Determine palliative and end-of-life care practices, barriers and beliefs among US neonatologists, and relationships between practice characteristics and palliative care delivery. The survey consisted ...

Approximately 30–40 million undocumented immigrants worldwide suffer restricted health care. A scoping review was conducted to determine what is known about this population’s palliative end-of-life ...