Dr. Tracy Balboni on spiritual support and advanced cancer study | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Channel: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · 2013 · Science & Technology
Tracy Balboni, MD, MPH, talks about her study examining spiritual support for patients with advanced cancer. The results show that patients reporting high spiritual support from religious communities were less likely to receive hospice, and more likely to receive aggressive end-of-life medical treatment. The study was published online on May 6, 2013, in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine.
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