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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objectives Rehabilitation in patients with terminal cancer plays an essential role in maintaining quality of life. However, ...

Background Patients with cancer frequently have unmet palliative care needs yet timely integration of palliative care in ...

Objectives Death literacy is a key factor in death-related psychosocial processes among caregivers. This research was carried out to determine the death literacy levels, care burdens and psychological ...

Corticosteroids are sometimes used in inoperable malignant bowel obstruction (MBO) despite limited evidence. The main randomised evidence comes from an old Cochrane review totalling 89 patients ...

Objectives To analyse patient-reported concerns regarding palliative chemotherapy using text mining and to identify how these concerns evolve according to treatment phase and patient characteristics.

Objectives To investigate public views about doctors as a point of access to voluntary-assisted dying (VAD), this study used a cross-sectional online survey with a quota-based sample of Queensland ...

Objectives Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a promising behavioural intervention to improve quality of life in patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers. Little qualitative ...