Background: Palliative care is a specialized approach to symptom management that focuses
on supporting patients' physical and psychological quality of life throughout the disease …

Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology NCCN Categories of Evidence and
Consensus Category 1: The recommendation is based on high-level evidence (eg …

Palliative cancer and oncology are inextricably linked. The term palliative care was
introduced in 1974 by Balfour Mount, a surgical oncologist, at the Royal Victoria Hospital of …

Although great strides have been made in cancer therapy, half of all patients diagnosed with
cancer will die of their disease, and just under one-third of these deaths occur within 6 …

The integration of palliative medicine into the care of patients with chronic incurable
diseases requires major changes in the structure and processes of health care delivery. 1, 2 …

Modern palliative care started with St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 and was initially
regarded as 'terminal care'. This served as a template for a developing model of …

PURPOSE: Early integration of outpatient palliative care (OPC) benefits patients with
advanced cancer and also the health care systems in which these patients are seen …

Over the past 20 years, increasing attention has been paid to quality-of-life issues in
oncology. As the hospice movement has grown in this country, palliative care has developed …

It is important for oncologists who provide comprehensive cancer care to be familiar with the
principles of primary palliative care and interdisciplinary team-based approaches to …

88 Background: Despite known benefits, cancer care systems struggle to provide early,
integrated palliative care (PC). Previously, we identified barriers to providing early PC as …