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Palliation

General Primary Care   

Questions discussed in this category


What screening tools or signs do you use to predict if a cancer patient is near end-of-life?
There is conflicting data on whether the "surprise question" performs adequately enough.  Do you use this or other screening tools alone, or in c...
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Papers discussed in this category


Cancer, 2015-03-15
Bedside clinical signs associated with impending death in patients with advanced cancer: preliminary findings of a prospective, longitudinal cohort study.

Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)), 2001
How accurate are physicians' clinical predictions of survival and the available prognostic tools in estimating survival times in terminally ill cancer patients? A systematic review.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2002 Aug 01
A predictive model for survival in metastatic cancer patients attending an outpatient palliative radiotherapy clinic.

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  • Gynecologic Oncology
  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Gastrointestinal Cancers
  • Genitourinary Cancers
  • Melanoma/Skin Cancer

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