Young Ontarians with cancer were subject to more aggressive treatments toward the end of their life, potentially prolonging ...

Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer have unique needs compared with other age groups. Access to palliative care ...

What causes people with cancer to die?The answer, it turns out, may be much different than the medical community has long ...

Systemic therapy is often given late due to optimism bias, treatment momentum, and difficulty in end-of-life conversations, ...

It's been 60-plus years since the Harvard Psilocybin Project, the rise of hippie communes, and the psychedelic era. Now some baby boomers are returning to the drugs of their youth — to confront aging.

Among Medicare beneficiaries with advanced cancer, 45% had more than one acute care visit, in-hospital mortality, late receipt of systemic therapy, or hospice entry in the last 30 days of life.

Many older adults with advanced cancer receive potentially aggressive treatment but not a lot of supportive care, according to a study published Feb. 21 in JAMA Health Forum. Researchers used data ...

We waited nervously in the lobby of the Ely hospital for a meeting with my dad’s doctor. While we’d learned a day before that ...

Blood cancer death rates have dipped in recent decades, dramatically boosting 5-year survival rates in leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. Still, the three diseases were expected to kill more than 57,000 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The likelihood for end-of-life outpatient palliative care and opioids was decreased among those with COPD or IPF ...

The author shares a deeply personal account of losing a sister to cancer after a decade-long battle, highlighting the emotional complexity of anticipatory grief. Despite numerous end-of-life ...