… of the palliative care team … care arm only met with the palliative care team on request from
the patient, family, or oncologist. Early palliative care integrated with standard oncologic care …

… Early palliative care (PC) improves quality of life and prolongs survival for patients with
metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Despite these benefits, patient- and provider-…

… Patients with early-stage lung cancer also benefit from palliative care; however, our study
was not designed to detect differences among early-stage cancers. In contrast to our findings, …

… palliative care within 1 year of cancer diagnosis, we assessed the type of settings in which
patients received palliative care… their first palliative care and the total number of palliative care …

… end-of-life care. Early palliative care improves quality of life and may prolong survival. Family
physicians should concentrate on early recognition of lung cancer, as well as prevention by …

… Current palliative care guidelines recommend EPC, although the timing of this has not been
… an initial palliative care encounter received within 90 days of a lung cancer diagnosis based …

… However, there is currently a lack of palliative care and end-of-life (EoL) provision for patients
… from lung cancer between August 1998 and December 2008 in our palliative care center. …

… Leppert studied patients with advanced lung cancer: 50 received home palliative care, and
25 were hospitalized at the inpatient palliative care unit. All of them experienced problems …

Context Breathlessness is a distressing symptom in advanced disease. Understanding its
patterns, burden, and palliative care (PC) needs over time is important to improve patients' …

… Smoking remains the predominant risk factor for lung cancer. Lung cancers are categorized
as small cell carcinoma or non–… Table 6 includes hospice and palliative care resources. …