End-of-life care discussions in patients with advanced cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 3315-3319

  Kumar, Pallavi ^a   Temel, Jennifer S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVING WILL; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; PROXY; RESUSCITATION; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TENESMUS; TERMINAL CARE; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84896699010     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2013.49.6562     Document Type: Article

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