Earlier multidisciplinary palliative care intervention for people with lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Lung cancer is the most common cancer and leading cause of cancer mortality globally. Lung cancer is associated with significant morbidity, with symptoms often being poorly managed, causing significant symptom burden for both patients and their family caregivers. In people with life-limiting illnesses including advanced cancer, palliative care has been effective in improving symptom control, physical and mental wellbeing, quality of life, and survivorship; with benefits extending to caregivers while in the role and subsequently. Earlier integration of palliative care within oncology may be associated with improved patient outcomes, and has been supported by two Lancet commissions and national guidelines. The evidence for its effectiveness, however, has been mixed across the cancer spectrum

SUBMITTER: Kochovska S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7481603 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature