Supportive and Palliative Oncology — A New Paradigm for Comprehensive Cancer Care
David Hui, Eduardo Bruera
Cancer is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Patients with advanced cancer often experience multiple symptoms related to increasing tumor burden, cancer treatments, and psychosocial stressors (see Figure 1). Direct infiltration, compression, obstruction, inflammation, and various cancer-related complications, such as thrombosis and infections, may all contribute to symptom distress. Cancer treatments such as surgery, radiation, […]