A startling study in 2010 found that patients with advanced lung cancer who saw a specialist in palliative care as well as receiving the usual oncological treatment stopped chemotherapy sooner, entered a hospice earlier, suffered less—and lived 25% longer than comparable patients who received only the standard care.
Thursday, October 02, 2014
Going Gently Into the Good Night
The benefit of knowing, even if the news is grim [bold added]:
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