Palliative Care
Publication Date: May 15, 2024
Key Points
Key Points
- In parallel with advances in cancer treatment, there is increasing awareness of the multiple dimensions of suffering experienced by people with cancer and their caregivers.
- This ASCO guideline aims to provide the entire oncology care team with recommendations regarding the optimal provision of palliative care to patients with cancer
Treatment
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...eatment RecommendationsGeneral Note:...
...note that ASCO used guideline metho...
...ndation 1Clinicians should refer patie...
...mmendation 1aPalliative care for patien...
...ion 1bPatients with advanced cancer should rece...
...2Among patients with cancer with unaddres...
...mmendation 3Clinicians from across the interdisc...
...mmendation 4For patients with advanced cancer,...
...endation 5Clinicians should refer patients w...
...ecommendation 6Clinicians caring for patients in e...
...1. Primary Palliative Care versus...
...ASCO believes that cancer clinical trials are...