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Most Cancer Doctors Avoid Saying It's The End

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Posted: Mon., June 16, 2008, 07:55 am
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Topics: Cancer, Chemotherapy, Hospice Care, News
     

CHICAGO - One look at Eileen Mulligan lying soberly on the exam table and Dr. John Marshall knew the time for the Big Talk had arrived.

He began gently. The chemotherapy is not helping. The cancer is advanced. There are no good options left to try. It would be good to look into hospice care.

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While Hospice Care Is Growing, Not All Have Access a New Study Finds

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Posted: Fri., April 11, 2008, 02:46 pm
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Topics: Hospice Care, Medicare, Research, EmpowHer News
     

By Steven Reinberg
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, April 11 (HealthDay News) -- More than one-third of Americans are now getting hospice care services before they die, but that care still isn't available to many people in the country, a new study finds.
     
     
     
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