The current issue of Annals of Palliative Medicine features a collection of manuscripts
dedicated to early palliative care (1). The guest editors for this focused issue, Jan Gaertner …

Background: Palliative care is often underutilized or initiated late in the course of life-
threatening illness. Randomized clinical Early Palliative Care (EPC) trials provide an …

Background Palliative care (PC) referral is recommended early in the course of advanced
cancer. This study aims to describe, in an integrated onco-palliative care program (IOPC) …

Cancer treatment has evolved enormously over the last 20 years, with developments in
surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy. As a result …

Purpose We describe the key elements of early palliative care (PC) across the illness
trajectory and examine whether visit content was associated with patient-reported outcomes …

A consensus document on early palliative care was produced by a committed Working
Group of the Italian Society of Medical Oncology and the Italian Society of Palliative Care to …

Palliative care has become synonymously associated with hospice care in the minds of
patients and physicians. Supportive care is a more acceptable term and leads to earlier …

Palliative care acknowledges the historical origin of the hospice developed in the UK during
the 20th century. Palliative care initially focused primarily on end-of-life care provided at …

Palliative care evolved mainly in relation to incurable cancer. Worldwide, the second major
catalyst was the Comprehensive Cancer Control Programme initiated by the World Health …

Objective With increasing evidence from controlled trials on benefits of early palliative care,
there is a need for studies examining implementation in real‐world settings. The …