Early Integrated Palliative Care in Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Limited data suggest that early palliative care (EPC) improves quality of life (QOL) and survival in patients with advanced cancer.

Objective

To evaluate whether comprehensive EPC improves QOL; relieves mental, social, and existential burdens; increases survival rates; and helps patients develop coping skills.

Design, setting, and participants

This nonblinded randomized clinical trial (RCT) recruited patients from 12 hospitals in South Korea from September 2017 to October 2018. Patients aged 20 years or older with advanced cancer who were not terminally ill but for whom standard chemotherapy has not been effective were eligible. Participants were randomized 1:1 to the control (receiving usual supportive oncological care) or intervention (receiving EPC with

SUBMITTER: Kang E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11310828 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature