The role of early palliative care involvement for patients with cancer is being increasingly
recognized for patients with incurable cancer as more studies demonstrate that it is feasible …

Palliative care is warranted from the time of diagnosis of incurable cancer. From this early
stage, palliative care consists of general palliative care provided by cancer specialists and …

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 …

Introduction. Early integration of palliative care alongside oncology is being increasingly
recommended, although the strategies and models for integration remain poorly defined. We …

In the past, oncological palliative care (PC) had been identified as “end-of-life palliative
care”(EoLPC), and EoLPC always began by carrying out a prognostic evaluation of life …

Over the past decade, substantial progress has been made in building the evidence base for
integrating palliative care with cancer care and increasing the availability of palliative care …

Patients with cancer experience many complex issues throughout the trajectory of the
disease. These range from the physical consequences of cancer and treatment to the …

Abstract Specialist Palliative Care aims to effectively support the quality of life of patients and
those close to them through progressive, life-limiting disease. Quality of life, an individual …

Background: Early palliative care provides better quality of life, increased prognostic
awareness, and even improved survival for patients with advanced cancer but how the …

Patients with advanced cancer often experience symptoms of disease and treatment that
contribute to distress and diminish their quality of life (QOL). Care that is aimed at control of …