In a recent study, published in The Oncologist, just under 10% of patients diagnosed with terminal cancer did not know their prognosis and had no interest in finding out. This unwillingness to face a ...

April 15, 2010 — Despite the distress of learning that their disease is terminal, most cancer patients prefer to know the truth, and to hear it from their physicians. This conclusion is from a Korean ...

Many terminal cancer patients are not getting adequate pain relief early enough, according to a University of Leeds study. The researchers found that, on average, terminal cancer patients were given ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Lawmakers in Harrisburg have introduced legislation that would allow terminally ill patients to use non-smoking forms of medical marijuana in Pennsylvania hospitals. The bill, ...

Australian citizen Ned Kelly, 91, lived in New Zealand for 66 years. His niece Kylie Cook says he paid taxes here, owned ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to a 2025 report submitted by the Press Information Bureau (PIB), in 2022, about 20 million new cancer cases were reported, and 9.7 ...

Certain psychoactive substances can improve the mental health of terminally ill cancer patients—but few patients can currently access them. Psilocybin, the psychoactive chemical in psychedelic ...

This is the latest instalment of a Global News series called Unheard. Unserved. Maritime Women’s Health In Crisis. In our previous stories, we introduced you to a woman who struggled for years to get ...

A Calgarian living with terminal cancer is calling on health officials in Alberta to restore access to after-hours specialist ...

Researchers in Denmark and the Netherlands find that the likelihood of a cancer patient committing a crime is 14% higher in the decade following their diagnosis than the baseline rate among people yet ...

A Lafayette father's battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer is taking a hopeful turn as he becomes the first in Colorado to receive a newly approved targeted therapy.