A survey shows that people with advanced cancer often receive care aimed at prolonging lifespan whereas many would prefer comfort to be prioritized instead.

People with advanced cancer were almost twice as likely as those with other serious illnesses to report this discordance in their treatment.

Life-extending care did not appear to have benefits among cancer patients who did not want this prioritized, according to the study in Cancer .

Their risk of death at two years was not significantly better than for those who received concordant, comfort-based care.

Lead author Manan Shah, MD, from the University of California at Los Angeles, acknowledged that although the treatment goals for advanced cancer were to help patients to live as well and as long as possible, sometimes these they

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