Inpatient palliative chemotherapy is associated with high mortality and aggressive end-of-life care in patients with advanced solid tumors and poor performance status

The benefit of palliative chemotherapy (PC) in patients with advanced solid tumors and poor performance status (ECOG-PS) has not been prospectively validated, which makes treatment decision challenging. We aim...

Source: BMC Palliative Care - May 20, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Vitor Fiorin de Vasconcellos, Renata RCC Bonadio, Guilherme Avan ço, Marcelo Vailati Negrão and Rachel Pimenta Riechelmann Tags: Research article Source Type: research