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 ...

Many terminally ill patients think clinical trials give them a fighting chance. May 21, 2008— -- Three weeks ago, 38-year-old Allan Shallenberger from Los Angeles received the same grim diagnosis ...

Terminally ill patients are being denied life insurance payouts before they die because of small print in old policies.

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 ...

Join Houston Life’s Melanie Camp as she takes us inside the clinic of world-renowned oncologist Dr. Philip Salem, the man behind a groundbreaking cancer therapy known as ICTriplex. With more than five ...

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

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 ...

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 ...