Palliative care is often thought to be synonymous with end-of-life care but this is untrue. In
fact, studies in the last 15 years have shown that the early involvement with palliative care …

Palliative care is often believed to be synonymous with end-of-life care or required only after
standard care interventions have failed to achieve a desired effect. In fact, earlier palliative …

Opinion statement Palliative care has evolved over the decades from its roots in the hospice
movement to a much wider approach in which early intervention further “upstream” in the …

The evidence for early integration of palliative care into standard oncology care is growing.
All things considered, the benefits to patients, families, and the health care system of …

The provision of specialty palliative care alongside oncology care is now recommended by
the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) on the basis of multiple randomized trials …

With prognostic indicators at hand, toss a coin. Half of all patients with cancer might be
predicted to die as a result of the disease within 5 years. Ask yourself whether an individual …

Palliative care is recognized as an integral component of quality care for patients throughout
the cancer continuum. Hospice and palliative medicine is a newly recognized subspecialty …

Health-care institutions and major stakeholders pointed out years ago that palliative care is
a vital part of caring for patients with life-threatening diseases and applicable early in the …

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 …

Early Specialty Palliative Care — Translating Data in Oncology into Practice | New England
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