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Palliative care given from the start of treatment for advanced cancer improves quality of life and may extend it. Instead of waiting for an oncologist to remember, the system should refer automatically when the diagnosis is recorded.
Temel and colleagues showed in 2010 that early palliative care in metastatic lung cancer improved quality of life, mood, and survival, and subsequent trials confirmed benefits across cancers. Referral remains late and inconsistent. Electronic triggers (stage IV diagnosis of defined cancers, second-line therapy start, unplanned admission) that generate a default referral unless declined would make early integration the norm.
Shares Temel: early palliative care alongside chemotherapy improved quality of life, mood and survival in lung cancer, Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shares Temel: early palliative care alongside chemotherapy improved quality of life, mood and survival in lung cancer, Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most.
Shares Temel: early palliative care alongside chemotherapy improved quality of life, mood and survival in lung cancer, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shares Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Shares Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Shares Supportive care and survivorship roadmap: making treatment bearable → proving it extends life → caring for tens of millions afterwards, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shares Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Shares Temel: early palliative care alongside chemotherapy improved quality of life, mood and survival in lung cancer, Supportive care and survivorship roadmap: making treatment bearable → proving it extends life → caring for tens of millions afterwards.