Optimizing Palliative Care for Effective Hospice Transitions in Cancer Patients: Insights from Multicenter Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence
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Optimizing Palliative Care for Effective Hospice Transitions in Cancer Patients: Insights from Multicenter Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence

This review synthesizes evidence identifying critical programmatic factors, relational dynamics, and interventions enhancing hospice transitions in cancer palliative care, emphasizing collaborative oncology-palliative care relationships and integrated supportive strategies.
Early Red Blood Cell Transfusion Strategy in Septic Shock Among Cancer Patients: Insights from the TRANSPORT Randomized Controlled Trial
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Early Red Blood Cell Transfusion Strategy in Septic Shock Among Cancer Patients: Insights from the TRANSPORT Randomized Controlled Trial

The TRANSPORT trial showed no superiority of liberal versus restrictive RBC transfusion in septic shock patients with cancer, highlighting no mortality benefit and increased thrombotic events with liberal strategy, underscoring the need for individualized transfusion approaches.
Acupuncture for Cancer-Related Insomnia: Limited, Low-Certainty Benefits Compared with Sham or No Treatment; Inferior to CBT‑I
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Acupuncture for Cancer-Related Insomnia: Limited, Low-Certainty Benefits Compared with Sham or No Treatment; Inferior to CBT‑I

A 2025 Cochrane review (5 RCTs, 402 patients, mainly women with breast cancer) finds very low- to moderate-certainty evidence that acupuncture delivers small, uncertain sleep diary benefits versus sham or inactive controls and is probably less effective than CBT‑I for insomnia in people with cancer.