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Quality palliative care: investing in data collection to monitor and improve services in Africa
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Quality palliative care: investing in data collection to monitor and improve services in Africa

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 10 July 2024

Effective palliative care has become a growing priority in African health services in recent decades. This is partly a result of the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases including cancer – and the sad reality that palliative care is often all…

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Tailoring palliative care visits to patients’ needs saves resources without harm
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Tailoring palliative care visits to patients’ needs saves resources without harm

  • Janet Fricker
  • 13 June 2024

Stepped palliative care, with visits occurring only at key points in the patient’s cancer journey, resulted in fewer palliative care visits than conventional early palliative care. The study, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, held May…

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Quality care, free of charge, and closer to home: expanding access to cancer services in India
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Quality care, free of charge, and closer to home: expanding access to cancer services in India

  • Swagata Yadavar
  • 5 October 2023

Rahul Jain and his mother Shashi were in Pune – 1,000 km from their home in Ashoknagar, in the neighbouring state of Madhya Pradesh – when they were told there was no hope. They had undertaken the long journey together…

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Developing palliative care: new WHO guidance helps countries tailor their own path
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Developing palliative care: new WHO guidance helps countries tailor their own path

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 1 April 2022

Image: Delivering palliative care in Kerala, India ©Camilla Perkins, camillaperkins.com Delivering palliative care to avoid unnecessary health-related suffering is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a moral imperative and a human right”. Yet only a tiny proportion of…

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Rapid palliation of bone mets: it’s effective and easy, so why aren’t we all doing it?
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Rapid palliation of bone mets: it’s effective and easy, so why aren’t we all doing it?

  • Marc Beishon
  • 20 November 2020

Bone metastases occur in around 7 out of every 10 people with advanced cancer, and are most frequently found in people with breast, prostate, lung or kidney cancers, and in most people with advanced multiple myeloma. They cause pain and…

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What we know, and ignore, of pediatric palliative care
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What we know, and ignore, of pediatric palliative care

  • Alessia De Chiara
  • 14 April 2020

In discussing palliative care, it has often been asked whether quality of time was important like quantity of life, if not more. And, when patients are children, the answer can become very complex. «If the goal of palliative care is…

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