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Background
Support for health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) is an essential part of cancer care in the final stages of life, yet empirical guidance regarding HRQOL and symptom trajectories is lacking.
Aim
To assess the change in HRQOL and symptom burden in the last year of life in patients with advanced cancer and its association with health care–related factors, cancer‐specific treatment, and...
Objective
Advanced cancer has a major impact on both patients and their relatives. To allow for personalized support, it is important to recognize which relatives will experience a decline in emotional functioning during the patient's last year of life, when this decline will occur, and what factors are associated with it. This study aimed to examine the trajectory of emotional functioning of relatives...
Household material hardship (HMH)—housing, food, transportation, or utility insecurity—is an adverse social determinant of health that is modifiable in the clinical setting. This mixed‐methods, single‐center study explored the experiences of HMH among Black and Hispanic pediatric oncology parents utilizing a single timepoint survey (N = 60) and semi‐structured interviews (N = 20 purposively sampled...