End of life care for cancer patients differs in US and Canada

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 17:00 in Health & Medicine

In the United States, older patients with advanced lung cancer make much less use of hospital and emergency room services at the end of life than their counterparts in Ontario but use far more chemotherapy, according to a study published May 18th online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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