Early Palliative Care for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies: Is It Really so Difficult to Achieve?

Related Articles Early Palliative Care for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies: Is It Really so Difficult to Achieve? Curr Hematol Malig Rep. 2017 Aug;12(4):300-308 Authors: LeBlanc TW, Roeland EJ, El-Jawahri A Abstract Evidence points to many benefits of «early palliative care,» the provision of specialist palliative care services upstream from the end of life, to improve patients’ quality of life while living with a serious illness. Yet most trials of early palliative care have not included patients with hematologic malignancies. Unfortunately, patients with hematologic malignancies are also known to have substantial illness burden, poor quality of life, and aggressive care at…
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