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

AJN Off the Charts

And we can promote access to palliative care and advance care planning and to supports like social workers and chaplains if we see those would be helpful—and to hospice when that’s appropriate. If older people with cancer are fully informed and want to come to the ED, the hospital, the ICU, I’m a fierce advocate for that.