Involvement of Palliative Care in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Patients and Associations with Survival and End-of-Life Outcomes.

Andrew Baird, Abdullah Nasser, Peter Tanuseputro, Colleen Webber, Paul Wheatley-Price, Camille Munro

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Article in Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Long-term survival of nonoccupational pleural mesothelioma: a case report and review of the literature.Journal of medical case reports · 2025
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrew BairdDepartment of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada.

Abdullah NasserDepartment of Oncology, Western University, London, ON N8W 2X3, Canada.

Peter TanuseputroDepartment of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada.

Colleen WebberBruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON K1R 6M1, Canada.

Paul Wheatley-PriceDepartment of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada.

Camille MunroDepartment of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2102-6907

University of Ottawa · CAWestern University · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a rare, aggressive, and incurable cancer with a poor prognosis and high symptom burden. For these patients, little is known about the impact of palliative care consultation on outcomes such as mortality, hospital admissions, or emergency department visits. The aim of this study is to determine if referral to supportive and palliative care in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma is associated with survival and decreased hospital admissions and emergency department visits. This is a retrospective chart review. Study participants include all malignant pleural mesothelioma patients seen at The Ottawa Hospital-an acute care tertiary center-between January 2002 and March 2019. In total, 223 patients were included in the study. The mean age at diagnosis was 72.4 years and 82.5% were male. Of the patients diagnosed between 2002 and 2010, only 11 (9.6%) were referred to palliative care. By comparison, of those diagnosed between 2011 and 2019, 49 (45.4%) were referred to palliative care. Median time from diagnosis to referral was 4.1 months. There was no significant difference in the median survival of patients referred for palliative care compared to those who did not receive palliative care (

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MesotheliomaMesothelioma, MalignantPleural NeoplasmsDeathFemaleHumansMalePalliative CareRetrospective Studiesemergency departmentsmesotheliomapalliative carepatient admissionsurvival

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PMID38392070

DOI10.3390/curroncol31020076

PMCPMC10888381

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