“Everything Is Palliative Which Is Not Curative”: Perceptions and a New Understanding of Incurable Cancer

Hilde Buiting, PhD With Femke Botman, MSc, Patrick Brown, PhD, Vincent Ho, MSc, Gabe Sonke, MD, PhD Patients with incurable cancer often do not perceive themselves as “palliative”, a connotation they more commonly associate with impending death. Instead, these patients often prefer the word “chronic.” On the basis of nurses’ experiences we would like to […]

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The Value of Death: bringing death back into life: What does this mean for Nurses?

This week’s blog is written by Dr Sarah Russell (@LearnPEOLC), Lead Nurse for Palliative and End of Life Care, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. Sarah is also a Florence Nightingale Foundation (@FNightingaleF) Alumni Champion. She is also a member of the British Geriatrics Society, End of Life Special Interest Group and Co-author, The Lancet Commission […]

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