Supportive care 2030 movement: towards unifying ambitions for global excellence in supportive cancer care-an international Delphi study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Supportive care to ensure optimal quality of life is an essential component of cancer care and symptom control across the lifespan. Ongoing advances in cancer treatment, increasing toxicity from many novel treatment regimes, and variations in access to care and cancer outcomes across the globe and resource settings present significant challenges for supportive care delivery. To date, no overarching framework has been developed to guide supportive care development worldwide. As an initial step of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Supportive Care 2030 Movement, we developed a targeted, unifying set of ambition statements to envision the future of supportive cancer care.

Methods

From September 2022 until June 2023, we used a modified

SUBMITTER: Chan RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11415959 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature