April 15, 2010 — Despite the distress of learning that their disease is terminal, most cancer patients prefer to know the truth, and to hear it from their physicians. This conclusion is from a Korean ...

Terminally ill patients are being denied life insurance payouts before they die because of small print in old policies.

Many terminally ill patients think clinical trials give them a fighting chance. May 21, 2008— -- Three weeks ago, 38-year-old Allan Shallenberger from Los Angeles received the same grim diagnosis ...

Family caregivers of patients with terminal cancer need psychospiritual care. The assessment of their psychospiritual distress is challenging. An automated system can be used to detect psychospiritual ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to a 2025 report submitted by the Press Information Bureau (PIB), in 2022, about 20 million new cancer cases were reported, and 9.7 ...

Dr. Bryant Lin thought his lingering cough was just allergies. Six weeks later, the Stanford University professor received devastating news: stage 4 lung cancer. The irony wasn't lost on Lin, who had ...

New York will be the 13th state to allow terminally ill people to end their life, creating an unusual coalition in opposition ...

To offset symptoms of severe anxiety in patients with terminal cancer, researchers led by Siew Tzuh Tang, DNS, Chang Gung University, suggest early integration of palliative care incorporating ...

The service is currently provided to about 200 patients across Newark and Sherwood but from April 2026 it will care for an ...

What the province needs is a waiting list database, says Doctors of B.C. president Dr. Adam Thompson. He said that the time it takes to see a specialist can be anywhere from up to 10 weeks for urgent ...

Sara Gillooly says she would not have stayed in B.C. for treatment had she known how long it would have taken to see an ...