Fred Hutch surgeons did the first robot-assisted hepatectomy (liver removal) and robot-assisted bile duct operations in the Pacific Northwest. Our surgeons were also the first in Washington state to ...

Although receiving palliative care improves the overall care experience of high-risk surgery patients and their families, only one-third of these patients in a recent study received a palliative care ...

Surgery for gallbladder cancer can be successful at removing cancer cells, particularly when doctors diagnose the cancer at an early stage and the person is in otherwise good health. Gallbladder ...

Palliative care — which focuses on quality of life — did not significantly improve outcomes in patients when delivered at the point of oncology surgery, highlighting the need to better understand when ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The specialist intervention failed to produce significant improvements in quality-of-life scores or OS. Early ...

When doctors integrate palliative care into presurgical planning, more people who went in for cancer-related surgery were able to put advanced directives in place. In the study, the researchers ...

One of the most important advances in palliative care in oncology over the past 15 years has been the recognition that palliative care specialists can improve cancer patients’ outcomes well before ...

Syngeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: A Comparison With Allogeneic and Autologous Transplantation—The Lymphoma Working Committee of the International Bone ...

Results of a randomized controlled trial do not support routine integration of specialty palliative care among patients undergoing major surgery for cancer with curative intent. The trial did not show ...