Objectives Cancer cachexia (CC) reduces treatment efficacy, quality of life and survival. However, few contemporary data quantify its prevalence or impact on death. This study assessed cachexia ...

Objectives This study aimed to investigate the trajectory of symptom burden and quality of life in palliative cancer patients ...

Objective Various providers have piloted palliative virtual wards in the past 4 years. This survey provides the first ...

Objective Uptake of advance care planning (ACP) in cancer remains low. An emphasis on personal value discussions and adoption of novel interventions may serve as the catalyst to increase engagement.

Psoas muscle indices, visceral fat distribution, inflammatory markers and 90-day mortality in palliative medicine: retrospective cohort study ...

Background Family carers are vital in the management and delivery of home-based palliative care. Decision-makers need to know what the most commonly expressed unmet needs of family carers are to ...

Importance International guidelines recommend the integration of multidisciplinary rehabilitation into palliative care services but its impact on quality of life across disease types is not well ...

Introduction The majority of observational studies approved that regular consumption of vitamin E would decrease the risk of cardiovascular events. However, a great number of randomised trials do not ...

Objectives The Asian Working Group for Cachexia (AWGC) updated the diagnostic criteria for cachexia, emphasising its multidimensional influence. We hypothesised that patients meeting the AWGC criteria ...

Objectives Fatigue is common among children living with cancer, particularly in advance stages. Little is known about the effectiveness of non-pharmacological approaches to manage this complex and ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure. However, it is difficult to diagnose and is unique in that it is both a genetic and ...

Correspondence to Ms Jodhi Rutherford, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia; jodhi.rutherford{at}qut.edu.au Background ...