INDIANAPOLIS – It is important that a healthcare team is aware of and understands a patient’s goals of care, both medical and personal. But that information, if documented, typically is not placed in ...

Administering more treatments to advanced, end-of-life cancer patients did not increase their length of survival, according to a joint study from researchers at Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Conn., ...

As the nation marks National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, a New Jersey group said it is time to change the narrative around end-of-life conversations. Despite decades of discussion, experts said ...

Among seriously ill patients who preferred comfort care, those with cancer were nearly twice as likely as those with other diseases to report receiving life-extending care instead, according to a new ...