[Palliative care: social and territorial inequalities].

SOCIAL AND TERRITORIAL. INEQUALITIES.Palliative care can be provided wherever the patient lives or receives care, considering its environment, in coordination with healthcare professionals, social and medico-social professionals.

[State of palliative care in France].

STATE OF PALLIATIVE CARE IN France. France is facing an epidemiological context marked by an increase in the number of elderly and very elderly people (often polypathological and dependent), and in the number of people suffering from serious or degenerative chronic illnesses. Considering people's needs and providing them with support in their last period of life has become more time-consuming, requiring appropriate care.

Implementation of shared decision-making and patient-centered care in France: Towards a wider uptake in 2022.

We present the evolution of patient-centered care (PCC) and shared decision-making (SDM) in France since 2017, highlighting advantages and drawbacks of their implementation at the macro level. We then focus on several key policy and legislative milestones that are aimed to develop PCC and SDM. These milestones underline the importance of patient movements to support and fund the development of research and practice in the field.

[What place for an Ethics committee in a comprehensive cancer centre? For an ethics embodied in real life].

The Ethics committee of Gustave Roussy cancer center is devoted to both reflection and action. The group has 40 members, professionals, patients and outside experts. These meet in plenary meetings or in specific working sessions and intervene at the request of any professional faced with ethical questions in the care.

[Artificial intelligence: a benefit for patients?].

While artificial intelligence (AI) may have raised concerns, these questions are now making way for in-depth discussions on how to take advantage of its potential to ensure advances for patients. From this point of view, AI can constitute a real lever for strengthening the doctor-patient relationship, subject to a certain number of conditions.

Moving towards shared decision making in the physician-patient encounter in France: State of the art and future prospects.

In this paper we present the evolution of shared decision making since the mid-nineties in terms of legislation, official statements and guidelines. We outline the goals and declarations of the French Ministry of Health and the French National Authority for Health, for whom informing patients and shared decision-making are central concerns. Finally, we discuss research projects and clinical initiatives in shared decision-making in France and provide a general overview of progress and barriers to progress.

Partnering with patients in translational oncology research: ethical approach.

Background: The research program CARPEM (cancer research and personalized medicine) brings together the expertise of researchers and hospital-based oncologists to develop translational research in the context of personalized or "precision" medicine for cancer. There is recognition that patient involvement can help to take into account their needs and priorities in the development of this emerging practice but there is currently no consensus about how this can be achieved. In this study, we developed an empirical ethical research action aiming to improve patient representatives' involvement in the development of the translational research program together with health professionals.