April 15, 2010 — Despite the distress of learning that their disease is terminal, most cancer patients prefer to know the truth, and to hear it from their physicians. This conclusion is from a Korean ...

It was first published in Korea that end-stage cancer patients with multidrug resistant bacteria have a lower hospice utilization rate and a higher rate of dying in advanced general hospitals than ...

Family caregivers of patients with terminal cancer need psychospiritual care. The assessment of their psychospiritual distress is challenging. An automated system can be used to detect psychospiritual ...

To offset symptoms of severe anxiety in patients with terminal cancer, researchers led by Siew Tzuh Tang, DNS, Chang Gung University, suggest early integration of palliative care incorporating ...

First-grade relative (either spouse or adult children) caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients were recruited for the study from a palliative care domiciliary team and a hospice. Control subjects ...

New York will be the 13th state to allow terminally ill people to end their life, creating an unusual coalition in opposition ...

What the province needs is a waiting list database, says Doctors of B.C. president Dr. Adam Thompson. He said that the time it takes to see a specialist can be anywhere from up to 10 weeks for urgent ...

The service is currently provided to about 200 patients across Newark and Sherwood but from April 2026 it will care for an ...

Sara Gillooly says she would not have stayed in B.C. for treatment had she known how long it would have taken to see an ...

B.C.’s cancer treatment system needs to be improved so that patients aren’t left waiting for months and having to fight for ...