The terrible choice.

The hope of cancer treatment or the support of hospice care: options presented to most as mutually exclusive. You know one of the only care providers who offers both together? The VA. This observational study of >13K patients treated at the VA for metastatic lung cancer indicates that centers treating the most patients with concurrent cancer and hospice treatment also incur the least cost with the least patient admissions and tube feed or vent placements during the 6 months following diagnosis. | Mor, JAMA Oncol 2019