Background Patients with advanced cancer may benefit from end of life (EOL) planning, but
there is evidence that their willingness and desire to engage in advance care planning …

Despite multimodal treatment with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, glioblastoma is
an incurable disease with a poor prognosis. During the disease course, glioblastoma …

Purpose Patients with advanced cancer often receive suboptimal end-of-life (EOL) care.
Particularly males with advanced cancer are more likely to receive EOL care that is more …

Background It is unknown if the implementation of an advance care planning (ACP) program
is feasible in daily clinical practice for glioblastoma patients. We aimed to develop an ACP …

Context Decision making regarding the place of end-of-life (EOL) care is an important issue
for patients with terminal cancer and their families. It often requires surrogate decision …

The aim of this study was to explore palliative home care physicians' experiences regarding
end‐of‐life breakpoint communication (BPC). This is a qualitative study where focus group …

Patients living with cancer often experience serious adverse events due to their condition or
its treatments. Those events may lead to a critical care unit admission or even result in …

Purpose The objective of this study is to identify the beliefs, values, perceptions, and
experiences of medical oncology, radiation oncology, and clinical haematology …

Eliciting and integrating patients' preferences in decision-making in palliative oncology is an
important criterion for the quality of end-of-life care. It is an essential prerequisite in …

Background Empirical research demonstrates that there is a tendency to administer tumor‐
directed therapy to patients with advanced cancer close to death, especially if they are …