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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001 93(18):1368-1369; doi:10.1093/jnci/93.18.1368
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 18, 1368-1369, September 19, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

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End-of-Life Cancer Care: Progress Still Needed

Linda R. Benson

A recent report on the status of end-of-life care for cancer patients highlighted several recommendations for improving the status of research and for treating patients in the last months of life. Unfortunately, it also highlighted that the questions on end-of-life care are not new and that improvements in and acceptance of palliative medicine have been slow in coming.

The results of a 1995 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on end-of-life care forced the medical community to confront the fact that there is a crisis in end-of-life care in the United States. More than 50% of patients in the last days of life had pain, their decisions at the end of life were not known or followed by their doctors, and one-third to one-half of the family members who cared for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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