Background: The choice between palliative chemotherapy (defined as the use of cytotoxic
medications delivered intravenously for the purpose of our study) and supportive care alone …

STUDY AIM: When children with cancer are no longer curable, parents often need to decide
between further aggressive treatments or symptom relief alone. Objectives were to:(1) …

Over the past two decades, paediatric palliative care has emerged as both a primary
approach and as its own medical subspecialty, the overall aim of which is to ease suffering …

Purpose The National Consensus Project (NCP) published a set of standards for quality
palliative care delivery. A key step before applying these guidelines to pediatric oncology is …

Background: Specialist paediatric palliative care services are promoted as an important
component of palliative care provision, but there is uncertainty about their role for children …

The study team conducted a systematic review of pediatric and adolescent palliative cancer
care literature from 1995 to 2015 using four databases to inform development of a palliative …

Objectives The goal of this study was to assess pediatric oncology providers' perceptions of
palliative care in order to validate previously identified barriers and facilitators to early …

Purpose Intensive therapies in pediatric malignancies increased survival rates but also
occurrence of treatment-related morbidities. Therefore, supportive care fulfills an …

Providing end-of-life care to children with cancer is most ideally achieved by initiating
palliative care at the time of diagnosis, advocating for supportive care throughout the …

Background Decision‐making about advanced cancer treatment is complex and may be
influenced by patients' family context, including the presence of children. We explored how …