Healthcare practitioners need to provide more advice about palliative care, study finds
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Healthcare practitioners need to provide more advice about palliative care, study finds

Dion Smyth Lecturer-practitioner in cancer and palliative care, Birmingham City University

Most people with cancer receive the information they require about the disease and the side effects of treatments, however far fewer receive information about palliative care, even when most people want such dialogue to occur, according to research.

Cancer Nursing Practice. 17, 01, 11-11. doi: 10.7748/cnp.17.01.11.s9

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