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Palliative care given from the start of treatment for advanced cancer improves quality of life and may extend it. Instead of waiting for an oncologist to remember, the system should refer automatically when the diagnosis is recorded.
Temel and colleagues showed in 2010 that early palliative care in metastatic lung cancer improved quality of life, mood, and survival, and subsequent trials confirmed benefits across cancers. Referral remains late and inconsistent. Electronic triggers (stage IV diagnosis of defined cancers, second-line therapy start, unplanned admission) that generate a default referral unless declined would make early integration the norm.
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Palliative care is not what happens when treatment stops; it works best alongside cancer treatment from the start. Patients feel better, are less depressed and may live longer. Access remains the constraint: most of the world's patients never see a palliative care specialist.
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