When should you switch from active treatment to palliative care? A new study gives answers. If anyone who has ever had cancer or who has helped someone with the disease, any ray of hope pushes you forward to finding a new miracle treatment. But looking at numbers of late stage cancer treatments and outcomes, a […]
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If anyone who has ever had cancer or who has helped someone with the disease, any ray of hope pushes you forward to finding a new miracle treatment. But looking at numbers of late stage cancer treatments and outcomes, a group of researchers suggest most interventions do not help bring forward a positive outcome.
The study came out of Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The study, which joins a growing body of research on end-of-life cancer treatment, published May 16 in JAMA Oncology.
The results were based on examination of health records for 78,446 adult patients from 280 United States cancer clinics between 2015 and 2019. The study focused on patients with metastatic and advanced tumors in six common cancers: breast, colorectal, non-small cell lung (NSCLC), pancreas, kidney, and urothelial.
“We wanted to find out if oncologic treatment of very advanced tumors is associated with improved survival or if there are times when it’s futile to continue care and instead oncologists should shift focus to palliative and supportive care,” said Maureen Canavan, PhD, associate research scientist, first author of the study, and a YCC member.
The researchers combed through patient health records to learn whether those with advanced disease who received systemic treatments — such as immunotherapies, targeted therapies, or hormonal therapies — benefitted by having better survival rates. They did not, the researchers found.
The findings revealed no statistically significant survival benefit for patients treated ….. more reading
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