Liz Szabo wrote in yesterday’s USA TODAY about the benefits of hospice and palliative care. The article discussed a study (posted on the Hospice and Caregiving Blog last summer) which showed early palliative care helped advanced lung cancer patients live longer. Dr. Gail Austin Cooney, former president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and an advanced ovarian cancer patient herself, is featured in the article and video below.
