ESMO takes a stand on supportive and palliative care

Cherny, Nathan I.; Catane, Raphael; Kosmidis, P.; Tonato, Maurizio; Maltoni, Marco; Lange, Kay; Kappauf, H.; Kloke, M.; Grigorescu, Alexandru; Tjulandin, Sergei; Bryuzgin, V V; Siedlecki, P; Holli, Kaija; Schrijvers, Dirk; Özyılkan, Özgür; Chasen, Martin; Wagnerová, M; Szántó, J; Oliveira, J.

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“…In Europe, the integration of palliative care into oncology practice has been fostered by the ESMO and EAPC. The ESMO established a policy on palliative care in oncology [8], a standing Palliative Care Working Group and an incentive program for cancer centers to integrate palliative management. The ESMO policy emphasizes on the oncologist's role in the delivery of palliative care until death and beyond.…”

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“…Palliative care is an approach that optimizes the comfort, function, and social support of patients and their families when cure is not feasible [3,4]. The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) have developed pain and palliative care recommendations that have been extensively adopted in western countries aiming to improve patient outcomes [5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Nevertheless, little information is available on experiences from Middle Eastern countries, including Lebanon, regarding palliative care for advanced cancer patients.…”

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Experience with palliative care in patients with advanced cancer at a tertiary care hospital in a developing country

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Boutros

Geara

et al. 2010

Support Care Cancer

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The importance of palliative care in patients with advanced cancer is established. Reports on the experience with palliative care in the Middle East region are limited. A prospective study was performed to characterize the palliative care experience at a tertiary care center in Lebanon and to identify the profile of patients requiring palliative care. This communication highlights the results of the study. Authors conclude that the profile of needs for individuals requiring palliative care in Lebanon is similar to westernized countries. Revisiting the continuum of cancer care is called for to better identify the optimal timing of intervention and avoid end of life distress.

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Experience with palliative care in patients with advanced cancer at a tertiary care hospital in a developing country

Ghosn

Boutros

Geara

et al. 2010

Support Care Cancer

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“…Supportive care, as a more complete form of care, is advocated by medical associations and researchers. The European Society for Medical Oncology and the American Society of Surgical Oncology have endorsed supportive and palliative care as essential service that must be part of comprehensive cancer care (Edwards, 1998;Cherny et al, 2003), and thereafter some recommendations and guidelines have been listed in some studies (Ford et al, 2013). Supportive care is defined as providing essential services that satisfy cancer patients' physical, psychological, social, informational, sexuality-based, and spiritual needs across their cancer journey (Steele and Fitch, 2008).…”

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Perioperative Comprehensive Supportive Care Interventions for Chinese Patients with Esophageal Carcinoma: a Prospective Study

Zhang

Zhao²,

Fang³

et al. 2013

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Objective: To assess the effects of perioperative comprehensive supportive care interventions on outcome of Chinese esophageal cancer patients in a prospective study. Methods: 60 patients with primary esophageal carcinoma were randomized into an intervention group (IG, n=31) and a control group (CG, n=29). The Chinese version of symptom checklist-90 (SCL-90) was adopted to assess their psychological status. The interventions, including health education, psychological support, stress management, coping strategies and behavior training, were carried out in 3 phases (preoperative, postoperative Ⅰ and postoperative Ⅱ), and psychological effects were thereafter evaluated accordingly before surgery, and 1 week, 4 weeks and 24 weeks post-surgery. Medical costs were estimated at discharge. Survival of patients was estimated each year post-surgery. General health status and satisfaction-with-hospital were surveyed by a follow-up questionnaire 4 years post-surgery. Results: All the subjects demonstrated higher scores in the preoperative phase than the normal range of Chinese population concerning 7 psychological domains including somatization, obsessive-compulsive, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety and paranoid ideation. Although no significant difference was observed between the two groups at admission, the scores of IG, which tended to decrease at a faster rate, were generally lower than those of CG at weeks 1, 4 and 24 post-surgery. The length of hospital stay and medical costs of IG were significantly less than those of CG and satisfaction-with-hospital was better. However, there was no significant difference in 4-year survival or health status between two groups. Conclusions: Appropriate perioperative comprehensive supportive care interventions help to improve the psychological state of Chinese patients with esophageal carcinoma, to reduce health care costs and to promote satisfaction of patients and their families with hospital.

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“…Preserving a cancer patient's quality of life in all phases of disease and after successful treatment also includes continuously assessing the patient's physical and psychological symptoms and making sure that these problems are fully recognised and adequately addressed. Where appropriate, this is done in collaboration with experts of other medical and non-medical disciplines [8]. Medical oncology is speaking medicine.…”

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The current and future role of the medical oncologist in the professional care for cancer patients: a position paper by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)

Popescu

Schäfer²,

Califano

et al. 2014

Annals of Oncology

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ESMO takes a stand on supportive and palliative care

Cited by 102 publications

References 1 publication

Experience with palliative care in patients with advanced cancer at a tertiary care hospital in a developing country

Experience with palliative care in patients with advanced cancer at a tertiary care hospital in a developing country

Perioperative Comprehensive Supportive Care Interventions for Chinese Patients with Esophageal Carcinoma: a Prospective Study

The current and future role of the medical oncologist in the professional care for cancer patients: a position paper by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)

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