Early Palliative Care Boosts Survival in NSCLC

http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/LungCancer/21753

Patients with advanced lung cancer lived longer and with a better quality of life when they received early palliative care as opposed to routine care, results of a randomized trial showed.

Early palliative care reduced use of aggressive measures at the end of life by more than a third, cut the prevalence of depression in half, and added nearly three months to the median survival of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to an article published in the Aug. 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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