1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK 2 School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK Correspondence to Jayne ...

Background To ensure patients and families receive appropriate end-of-life care pathways and guidelines aim to inform clinical decision making. Ensuring appropriate outcomes through the use of these ...

Correspondence to Dr Nicola White, Division of Psychiatry, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Departent, University College London, London W1T7NF, UK; n.g.white{at}ucl.ac.uk Objectives To determine ...

Background Impending death is not well recognised.1 Due to improvements in technology and medicine, people are living longer with more complex health conditions2 and because of this, the death of a ...

Background The placebo effect may result in a 40% clinical improvement following administration of a non-active treatment. Complementary therapies such as reflexology are commonplace in palliative ...

Correspondence to Dr Jason W Boland, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK; Jason.Boland{at}hyms.ac.uk Objectives There is increased interest in cannabinoids for cancer pain ...

1 King's College London, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, London, UK 2 Palliative Care Team, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London, UK ...

Objectives Little is known about hearing loss and tinnitus associated with neurotoxic chemotherapy. Study evaluated for differences in occurrence rates and effects of hearing loss and tinnitus in ...

4 Henrietta Szold-Hadassah–Hebrew University School of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel 7 Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Interprofessional ...

Objectives Malnutrition is associated with poor quality of life and survival outcomes for patients with cancer, but is challenging to prevent or treat in pancreatic cancer due to the multifactorial ...

Correspondence to Professor Moshe Y Flugelman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; myf{at}technion.ac.il Informing families about the ...

Purpose To evaluate the effect of auricular acupressure (AA) on cancer-related fatigue (CRF), sleep disturbance and anxiety in lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Materials and methods ...