Early palliative care (EPC) significantly improves quality of life, symptoms, and satisfaction
with care for patients with advanced cancer. International organizations have recognized …

Simple Summary Several new targeted drugs for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia
(AML) have been developed in recent years. However, their potential efficacy should be …

Background Haemato-oncology patients are likely to be referred later to palliative care than
patients with solid tumours, despite experiencing similar symptom burden. Patients prior to …

Introduction Palliative care for patients with cancer, and more recently for patients with
hematologic malignancies, has increasingly been shown to be beneficial, with mounting …

Peer support, a distinctive form of social support in which patients share emotional, social,
and practical help based on their own lived experience of illness and treatment, positively …

Background Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an aggressive medical
procedure which significantly impacts the shared emotional well-being of patients and family …

Outpatient palliative‐care facilitates timely supportive‐care access; however, there is a
paucity of studies on the timing of referral in the outpatient setting for patients with …

Background: Patients with hematologic malignancies (HMs) receive more disease directed
care at the end of life (EOL) and often die in the hospital. The impact of early palliative care …

Background For patients with multiple myeloma receiving high-dose chemotherapy followed
by autologous stem cell transplantation (SCT), acute life disruptions and symptom burden …

Introduction New treatments have improved the overall survival of patients with multiple
myeloma (MM). At diagnosis and during the course of the disease, patients often report pain …