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Palliative Care: What is it? How do I get it?
Cancer: Managing Symptoms | Last Active: Dec 29, 2023 | Replies (44)Comment receiving replies
This info is so important. We have been offered palliative care. We actually haven’t understood what they do and unfortunately it’s not well defined by the doctors. I will dive deeper to see how we can take better advantage of what they offer for my husband’s recovery from pancreatic cancer. Thank you for this info.
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Hello @baeph Here is some information from Mayo Clinic's website that gives a good description of palliative care.
--Palliative care
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/palliative-care/about/pac-20384637
How is your husband feeling now? What concerns do you have regarding his treatment?
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@baeph, my understanding of palliative cancer, especially for cancer, can be defined as comfort care or helping to manage the side effects of cancer and its treatments for the patient and their family and supporters. Palliative care concentrates of managing symptoms, like pain, depression, nausea, mobility, etc. - anything that affects quality of life. Palliative care is meant to enhance a person's current care by focusing on quality of life for them and their family.
Current care can include patients for whom their cancer is expected to go into remission or is metastatic and everything in between.