Prolonged survival with palliative care : it is possible, but is it necessary?

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NIPP, Ryan | EL-JAWAHRI, Areej | TEMEL, Jennifer

Palliative care is defined as care provided by a specially trained team of clinicians that is both patient and family centered and seeks to enhance quality of life throughout the continuum of illness. Multiple studies have reported benefits associated with integrating early palliative care with standard oncology care for patients with advanced cancer to address patients’ symptoms, understanding of their disease, coping strategies, and medical decision-making. Consequently, guidelines recommend early integration of palliative care for patients with advanced cancer, concurrently with disease-directed and life-prolonging treatment. Despite the established benefits and guideline recommendations for early integration of palliative care in oncology, many patients do not receive palliative care services or receive them late in the illness trajectory, potentially due to both patient and clinician misperceptions that palliative care is appropriate only after a patient has discontinued life-prolonging therapies. Thus, a growing body of literature has sought to demonstrate that palliative care improves patient outcomes without shortening survival.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2751522

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