Aggressiveness of Care at the End of Life in Cancer Patients

National University Health System (NUHS)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Advanced Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00980122

MC05/30/07

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cancer is the commonest cause of death in Singapore, and many cancer deaths occur in hospital.

Management of cancer patients is getting more complex with constant development of new drugs, interventional procedures and supportive measures. Despite this, the majority of advanced cancer patients will die from their disease or related complications.

There is a lack of data on the utilisation of health resources in advanced cancer patients in this country. In this study the investigators ask themselves how aggressive care was in the last 3 months of the patient's life. The investigators will be collecting data on specific cancer treatments, interventional procedures, and supportive measures.

Enrollment: 250 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Advanced cancer patients who passed away as an inpatient in NUH, under the department of Haematology Oncology.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with haematologic malignancies.