Objectives Cancer cachexia (CC) reduces treatment efficacy, quality of life and survival. However, few contemporary data quantify its prevalence or impact on death. This study assessed cachexia ...

Objectives This study aimed to investigate the trajectory of symptom burden and quality of life in palliative cancer patients ...

Objective Various providers have piloted palliative virtual wards in the past 4 years. This survey provides the first ...

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Objectives To investigate the efficacy and safety of sodium channel blocker (SCB) rotation and/or combined use for neuropathic pain where the initial SCB is ineffective or poorly tolerated. Methods A ...

Objective Uptake of advance care planning (ACP) in cancer remains low. An emphasis on personal value discussions and adoption of novel interventions may serve as the catalyst to increase engagement.

Background Family carers are vital in the management and delivery of home-based palliative care. Decision-makers need to know what the most commonly expressed unmet needs of family carers are to ...

Importance International guidelines recommend the integration of multidisciplinary rehabilitation into palliative care services but its impact on quality of life across disease types is not well ...

Introduction The majority of observational studies approved that regular consumption of vitamin E would decrease the risk of cardiovascular events. However, a great number of randomised trials do not ...

Correspondence to Dr Stanislav Filip, Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, 500 05, Czech Republic; stanfil01{at}gmail.com Objectives Most ...

Objectives The Asian Working Group for Cachexia (AWGC) updated the diagnostic criteria for cachexia, emphasising its multidimensional influence. We hypothesised that patients meeting the AWGC criteria ...

1 NHS Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust, Grantham, England & University of Nottingham, England, UK 2 University of Nottingham, England, UK Background The Distress Thermometer is the most ...