Aggressive Cancer Treatment at End of Life Does Not Extend Survival

Aggressive treatment to terminally ill advanced cancer patients did not increase their lifespan, a recent study found. Researchers from the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston conducted the study, which appeared in JAMA Oncology. They found no significant differences in the length of […]

MD Anderson’s Dr. Eduardo Bruera: Educate Hospital Execs on Palliative Care’s Outcomes, Cost Savings

Dr. Eduardo Bruera is a true pioneer in the field of palliative care.  Bruera founded the first academic fellowship program in palliative care at the University of Alberta in Canada. He later founded the Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston where he is […]