Over the past five decades, palliative care has evolved from serving patients at the end of life
into a highly specialized discipline focused on delivering supportive care to patients with life …

As management of patients with cancer is evolving, an increased focus is being placed on
individualized patient-centered care. Early integration of palliative care into the overall …

Palliative care is a fundamental component of cancer care. As part of the 2011 to 2012
Leadership Development Program (LDP) of the American Society of Clinical Oncology …

Opinion statement Palliative care provides an extra layer of support to patients and families
facing a serious illness. To date, several studies support the use of early, integrated …

Objective: Palliative care aims to improve cancer patients' quality of life through expert
symptom management, psychosocial and spiritual care, patient-clinician communication …

Palliative care has proven to be an important component during the care of seriously ill
oncology patients. In the past decade, early integration of both specialties demonstrated …

Despite improvements in cancer therapies, cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide.
Many patients experience severe, unnecessary symptoms during treatment as well as at the …

Opinion statement While the benefits of early palliative care are indisputable, most of the
current evidence has emerged from resource-rich settings in urban areas of high-income …

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 …

Purpose In 1998, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) published a special
article regarding palliative care and companion recommendations. Herein we summarize …