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Rights and Responsibilities at the End of Life
By Hannah Giunta, MPH, PhD
Questions about end-of-life care are always vexing, but a recent article in U.S. News and World Report suggests that cancer patients continue to receive useless but harmful treatments at the end of life (Thompson, 2016). A new research study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO’s) annual meeting revealed that a big part of the problem comes from a lack of meaningful dialogue among physicians, patients, and family members. Continue reading
Patients’ Survival Expectations With and Without Their Chosen Treatment for Prostate Cancer
Center Professor Emerita Dr. Margaret Holmes-Rovner is a contributing author on a new article published in Annals of Family Medicine, “Patients’ Survival Expectations With and Without Their Chosen Treatment for Prostate Cancer.” Published in the May/June 2016 issue, the study is … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged Annals of Family Medicine, bioethics, cancer, cancer treatment, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, prostate cancer
Precision Medicine/Ambiguous Ethics?
This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series. For more information, click here. By Leonard Fleck, PhD In his State of the Union Address President Obama announced that he wished to set aside $215 million for his … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics in the News
Tagged cancer, cancer treatment, genome, Imatinib, Leonard Fleck, precision medicine
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