Hospice Delivers Optimized Quality of Care, Improves Survival for Patients with Lung Cancer
For patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) – the most common form of lung cancer and one of the leading cause of cancer-related death in the US – enrollment in hospice not only decreases the likelihood of receiving aggressive care at the end of life and of dying in the hospital, it may also have a survival benefit, according to findings in the the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
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