Examining and addressing unmet care needs is integral to improving the provision and
quality of cancer services. This review explored the prevalence of unmet supportive care …

Purpose Randomized controlled trials have supported integrated oncology and palliative
care (PC); however, optimal timing has not been evaluated. We investigated the effect of …

Opinion statement Patients with hematologic malignancies and their families are among the
most distressed of all those with cancer. Despite high palliative care-related needs, the …

Simple Summary At the Veneto Institute of Oncology-IRCCS, a simultaneous-care outpatient
clinic (SCOC) has been active since 2014. Here, patients with advanced-stage disease are …

Simple Summary Palliative care focuses on relief from physical symptoms as well as from
emotional, social and spiritual distress. This article promotes the importance of integrating …

Palliative care (PC) aims to improve quality of life (QOL) for patients with serious illness and
their families by recognizing and alleviating the physical, emotional, social, existential, and …

Background: Integration of early outpatient palliative care for patients with advanced cancer
requires overcoming logistical constraints as well as attitudinal barriers of referring …

Background Closely linked to the concept of supportive care, the integrated model of
palliative care (PC) implies identifying, assessing and treating physical and psychological …

Early palliative and supportive care referral is the standard of care for many malignancies.
This paradigm results in improvements in patients' symptoms and quality of life and …

Palliative care is an alternative to standard care for gravely ill patients that has demonstrated
many clinical benefits in cost-effective interventions. It is expected to grow in demand soon …