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    Prioritizing patient values—who/what matters most—is central to palliative care and critical to treatment decision making. Yet which factors are most important to family caregivers in these decisions remains understudied. Using data from a U.S. national survey of cancer caregivers (N = 1661), we examined differences in factors considered very important by caregivers when partnering with patients in cancer treatment decision making by cancer stage and caregiver sociodemographics. Fifteen factors were rated on a 4-point Likert-scale from ‘very unimportant’ to ‘very important.’ Descriptive statistics were used to characterize caregiver factors and tabulate proportions of importance for each. Generalized linear mixed effect modeling was used to examine the importance of factors by cancer stage, and chi-square analyses were performed to determine associations between caregiver sociodemographics and the five most commonly endorsed factors: quality of life (69%), physical well-being (68%), le

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    The Division of Hematology/Oncology and the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center at Mayo Clinic Florida invite you to join us for a “Lung Cancer” educational patient and caregiver symposium during Lung Cancer Awareness Month (November). This in-person and online event is free to join. It will take place on Saturday, November 18, 2023 from 7:30 am – 1:00pm EST at the Mayo

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