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Maggie Rogers1, Donna K McClish2, J Brian Cassel3
1American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Abstract:
A secondary analysis of a population-based study of cancer patients' use of specialty palliative care (SPC), 2012-2015, was conducted, comparing a young adult (YA) cohort of those who died at age 21-39 years (n = 112); a cohort of those who died at 40-64 years old (n = 2957); and an older cohort that died at age 65 or older (n = 8949). The YA cohort had a higher rate of SPC use (44.6%) compared to the middle (34.3%, p = 0.0244) and older cohorts (21.1%, p < 0.0001). The cohorts did not differ significantly in the timing of SPC, which often occurred in the final days or weeks prior to death.
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