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An obituary to professor Geoffrey Warren Hanks is presented.

The authors reflect on the significance of palliative cancer care research in Great Britain. They primarily account the role of collaborative national and international palliative care research to enhance the quality of research, targeting a development from retrospective to prospective studies and from descriptive to intervention studies. Furthermore, they consider the greater evidence on the improvement of palliative care research in clinical studies, despite its limitations and challenges.