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

AJN Off the Charts

The study looked at claims data from January 2013 to December 2017 among 146,329 older patients with metastatic breast, colorectal, lung, pancreas, or prostate cancer. My guess is that few had had those important conversations or had been offered a wider range of choices than just to be hospitalized or be resuscitated/full code.