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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

While we know that aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care is common among community-dwelling patients with cancer, little is known about such patterns of care among nursing home residents. But most tell me that’s never where they wanted to end up and certainly not where they wanted to die.