Cancer and end of life: the management provided during the year and the month preceding death in 2015 and causes of death in France.
Audrey Tanguy MelacThomas LesuffleurPhilippe-Jean BousquetAnne Fagot-CampagnaChristelle Gastaldi-MénagerPhilippe TuppinPublished in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2019)
Cancer management and death mostly occurred in SSH in France. Cancer patients frequently attend the emergency department and frequently receive chemotherapy during the last month of life. These data continue to contrast with those observed in Scandinavian- and English-speaking countries, in which management of the end of life at home is preferred.