Comparing palliative care for adults with cancer in hospice?

Quality of life: Palliative care can occur both in and out of hospice. Many people equate hospice with "doing nothing", but good hospice care involves palliation of symptoms so that end of life is as pain and worry free as possible. Active palliation with radiation or chemotherapy in patients who have a longer potential life span can definitely improve quality of life for patients not yet ready for hospice.

Hospice/palliative: I assume you are asking the difference between palliative care and hospice.(?)palliative care is treatment that is given to alleviate symptoms, not intended to cure.Hospice is a service that will help care for a patient during the last phase of their life.A patient can have palliative care while on hospice.Hospice provides nursing care, aides, chaplins, social workers etc.

The time to: Shift from exclusive focus on cure, to acceptance that cure is not possible, time to focus on quality, comfort and care is difficult for many. Today, evidence is pointing toward integrating comfort measures for pain, nausea, fatigue and sleep early during "cure care". Amazingly, people treated this way live longer, and more comfortably. It's what i would want!