For Cancer Patients . Cancer in Rhode Island Cancer Control Plan Cancer Prevention Cancer Screening For Cancer Patients Women's Ca Screening Hereditary Breast Cancer Cancer Registry . For Cancer Patients Treatment and Palliative Care Treatment for many types of cancer has improved greatly in recent years. If they did, the death rate from cancer would come down about one-fourth. Palliative care has also improved greatly in recent years.
Palliative care is special care given to patients who are dying.
The goals of palliative care are to help patients go about their daily lives as normally as possible, and then, as they are able to do less, to make them as comfortable as possible. Clinical Trials Clinical trials are tests used to improve cancer treatments. They help doctors make the best cancer treatments even better. They help patients get the best cancer treatments available today. Patients who enroll in clinical trials are assigned by lottery to one of two groups.