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ReviewTherapeutic advances in respiratory disease

Early, integrated palliative care for people with chronic respiratory disease: lessons learnt from lung cancer.

Anne M Walker, Donald R Sullivan, Phan Nguyen, Anne E Holland, Natasha Smallwood

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Review in Therapeutic advances in respiratory disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Palliative care interventions for thoracic cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis identifying the core elements.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Anne M WalkerHeart and Lung, Central Adelaide Local Health Network, SA 5000, Australia.ORCID 0009-0004-4559-1833
Donald R SullivanOregon Health and Science University, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Portland, OR, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3266-3389
Phan NguyenHeart and Lung, Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Anne E HollandRespiratory Research @ Alfred, School of Translational Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Natasha SmallwoodRespiratory Research @ Alfred, School of Translational Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer and chronic non-malignant respiratory disease cause pervasive, multifactorial suffering for patients and informal carers alike. Palliative care aims to reduce suffering and improve quality of life for patients and their families. An established evidence base exists that has demonstrated the essential role of specialist palliative care for people with lung cancer. Emerging evidence supports similar benefits among people with chronic respiratory disease. Many lessons can be learnt from lung cancer care, particularly as the model of care delivery has transformed over recent decades due to major advances in the diagnostic pathway and the development of new treatments. This narrative review aims to summarize the evidence for specialist palliative care in lung cancer and chronic respiratory disease, by highlighting seven key lessons from lung cancer care that can inform the development of proactive, integrated models of palliative care among those with chronic respiratory disease. These seven lessons emphasize (1) managing challenging symptoms; (2) the efficacy of specialist palliative care; (3) the importance of providing specialist palliative care integrated with disease-directed care according to patients' needs not prognosis; (4) the need for new models of collaborative palliative care, (5) which are culturally appropriate and (6) able to evolve with changes in disease-directed care. Finally, we discuss (7) some of the critical research gaps that persist and reduce implementation in practice.

Indexed as

Delivery of Health Care, IntegratedLung NeoplasmsPalliative CareChronic DiseaseHumansQuality of Lifechronic obstructive pulmonary diseasechronic respiratory diseaseinterstitial lung diseaselung cancer (lung neoplasm)palliative caresupportive care

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PMID39921545
PMCPMC11807281

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