Improving Palliative Care and Quality of Life in Pancreatic Cancer Patients.

ABSTRACT: Background: Pancreatic cancer patients often present with complications, which can impact treatment tolerance. Thus, symptom management is a vital component of treatment in addition to traditional chemotherapeutics. Concurrent palliative care with an emphasis on aggressive symptom management may sustain both clinical and patient-centered outcomes during treatment. The purpose of this article is to explore the impact of a concurrent palliative care intervention in patients with pancreatic cancer treated on phase I clinical trials. Materials and Methods: This is a secondary analysis of a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded randomized trial of an advanced practice nurse driven palliative care intervention for solid tumor patients treated on phase I clinical tria

SUBMITTER: Chung V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9080991 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature