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Palliative Care News

Rethinking Conversations on Prognosis and Life Expectancy Talking to patients about end-of-life care is tricky for any physician, especially when the patient doesn't want to talk about it either.
Medscape Medical News, December 14, 2018
PCOS 2018 Opioid Misuse in Cancer Patients: Fearmongering or Real Risk? As the opioid crisis goes on, cancer patients are increasingly being caught in the crossfire: is this patient population at risk for abuse or misuse of these drugs?
Medscape Medical News, December 4, 2018

PCOS 2018 Palliative Care Adapted to 'Real World' Community Settings
Medscape Medical News, November 26, 2018
PCOS 2018 Early Palliative Rehabilitation Improves QOL in Advanced Cancer
Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2018
PCOS 2018 Cancer Pain Control App Works -- Palliative Care for Everyone?
Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2018
PCOS 2018 Immunotherapy Adverse Events More Common Than Initially Reported
Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2018

Palliative Care Perspective

Lung Cancer Advances: A Year Like No Other 2018 has been a year of extraordinary advances in lung cancer treatment.
Medscape Oncology, November 16, 2018
Hard Lessons From Year 1 of Oncology Fellowship Loss of autonomy. Practicing in areas of medicine without good evidence. Providing end-of-life care. Oncology fellowship comes with its own unique set of tough lessons.
Medscape Oncology, November 7, 2018

Doctor and Nurse Among Those Shot at Pittsburgh Synagogue
Medscape Emergency Medicine, November 2, 2018
When a Patient Turns Into a Friend
Medscape Oncology, September 7, 2018
'I Wonder if I Betrayed Him': When the Patient Is a Colleague
Medscape Oncology, September 7, 2018
Palliative Care for Gender and Sexual Minorities
Medscape Nurses, August 24, 2018

Journals

Quality of Life Needs in Older Patients With Cancer
Annals of Oncology, December 13, 2018
Effects of Dignity Therapy on Family Members
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, November 19, 2018
Strategies to Combat the Crises of Opioid Scarcity and Abuse
Journal of Clinical Oncology, November 12, 2018
Comparison of Oxycodone and Morphine for Cancer Pain
BMC Anesthesiology, October 31, 2018
The Management of Nausea at the End of Life
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, September 24, 2018

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