There has been limited research in the field of palliative care and even far less focus on the area of palliative surgery. Although patient needs are paramount, family caregivers require information ...

The study, presented at the Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer Symposium, found that palliative surgery in patients with advanced cancers can relieve pain with minimal morbidity. Palliative surgery ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new program has been launched that sets quality standards for surgical decision-making for the oldest old. The results may shift the need from step-down post-surgical care to palliative care for ...

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Although receiving palliative care improves the overall care experience of high-risk surgery patients and their families, only one-third of these patients in a recent study received a palliative care ...

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 ...

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 ...

Britain is in the grip of an obesity epidemic, with more than a million severely and morbidly obese. Surgery is available. But in this week's Scrubbing Up, Dr David Haslam, from the group Experts in ...