End-of-Life Care for Advanced Lung Cancer Differs Markedly Between U.S. and Ontario

Note: study on lung cancer but pertinent for all cancer patients/families

Even more important, he writes, patient preferences vary from one individual to another and these preferences are often unheard: “Quality in end-of-life care will continue to elude us if we assume that societal average preferences indicate the care individual patients want and need,” he writes.