Effective Use of Hospice Improves End-of-Life Care for Patients with Cancer

December 9, 2014

(Oncology Nurse Advisor) – A study of elderly patients with cancer during their last year of life, especially those with poor-prognosis cancers, found that patients who received hospice care were five times less likely to die in a hospital or nursing home than those who did not have the benefits of hospice. This, despite the fact that patients with cancer utilize hospice care more than any other group of patients.