Earle of Dana-Farber Cancer Research and Treatment Center in Boston, the main author of the research paper, told reporters that with the gradual popularization of new chemotherapy, hospice care has become more and more active. "Proper hospice care is not a bad thing." Earl said.

It may be a good idea for cancer patients to expand the scope of hospice care services. Hospice care can meet the needs of patients and their families in the last weeks or months of their lives.

Earl and his colleagues surveyed more than 28,000 patients over 65. All these patients died within one year after being diagnosed with lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer or other gastrointestinal cancers.

They wrote in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that there were several indications that nursing showed a gradually positive trend during the study period. Compared with the patients treated in 1993, the patients in 1996 are more likely to receive chemotherapy, even in the last two weeks of their lives. As time goes on, patients are more and more likely to be sent to emergency room and intensive care unit for hospice care.