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- Palliative care is now a key part of cancer treatment, focusing on early intervention to enhance patient quality of life and overall outcomes.
- The NCCN Guidelines for Palliative Care offer recommendations to help oncology teams improve patients' experiences throughout their illness.
- The NCCN Palliative Care Panel reviews and updates these guidelines yearly, stressing the need for adaptive coping strategies and effective symptom management through both medication and alternative therapies.
Article Abstract
Palliative care has evolved to be an integral part of comprehensive cancer care with the goal of early intervention to improve quality of life and patient outcomes. The NCCN Guidelines for Palliative Care provide recommendations to help the primary oncology team promote the best quality of life possible throughout the illness trajectory for each patient with cancer. The NCCN Palliative Care Panel meets annually to evaluate and update recommendations based on panel members' clinical expertise and emerging scientific data. These NCCN Guidelines Insights summarize the panel's recent discussions and highlights updates on the importance of fostering adaptive coping strategies for patients and families, and on the role of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions to optimize symptom management.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10196810 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2021.0033 | DOI Listing |
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