ArticleBreast care (Basel, Switzerland)
Integrating Palliative Medicine into Comprehensive Breast Cancer Therapy - a Pilot Project.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Referral Criteria for Outpatient Palliative Cancer Care: A Systematic Review.The oncologist · 2016Pooled it
- Impact of the implementation of an embedded palliative care model in the continuum of care for patients with metastatic breast cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Observational
- Supportive and palliative care for metastatic breast cancer: resource allocations in low- and middle-income countries. A Breast Health Global Initiative 2013 consensus statement.Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2013Review
- Factors associated with fatigue after surgery in women with early-stage invasive breast cancer.The oncologist · 2013Article
- Recommending early integration of palliative care - does it work?Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2012Article
- Palliative care consultation service and palliative care unit: why do we need both?The oncologist · 2012Article
- Standardizing integration of palliative care into comprehensive cancer therapy--a disease specific approach.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2011Article
- Facilitating Early Integration of Palliative Care into Breast Cancer Therapy. Promoting Disease-Specific Guidelines.Breast care (Basel, Switzerland)Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo comply with the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, our institution's administrative directives were adopted to advocate the provision of palliative care (PC) early in the disease trajectory of breast cancer (BC). To assess the outcome of this recommendation, this study evaluated the effects of this approach.
methodsA retrospective systematic chart analysis of a 2-year period was performed. The first PC consultation of patients was analyzed according to (a) physical condition, (b) symptom burden of the patients, and (c) reasons for PC consultation.
resultsMany patients were already in a reduced physical state and experienced burdening symptoms when first counselled by PC. After a 1-year experience with PC consultations, the number of burdening symptoms identified at first PC consultation decreased and senologists increasingly requested PC support also for non-somatic issues.
conclusionsA development towards a better understanding of PC competencies after a 1-year initiation period could be demonstrated, but BC patients continued to be in late stages of the disease at the time of first PC contact. Disease-specific guidelines may facilitate and optimize the integration of PC into breast cancer therapy.
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