Palliative Care in Cancer Care

Summary and Clinical Action Items from the ACS/CAPC Webinar

ASCO Guideline calling for routine use of early and concurrent palliative care for advanced stage cancer patients.

National accreditation standards for cancer care, requiring provision of palliative care services, navigation programs, and psychosocial distress screening.

An introduction to palliative care, how it is delivered, its impact on quality of life, and the growing population of patients who need it.

Excerpt from presentation delivered to oncology practices describing how palliative care can support successful participation in the Oncology Care Model

User-tested language on how to talk about what palliative care is and why it's needed.

This study highlights disparities in palliative care utilization for people living with cancer.

Searchable directory of specialty palliative care providers, filtered by care setting.

Information for patients and families about palliative care.

This on-demand webinar is part of our ACS series and features a discussion on overcoming the stigma faced by palliative care teams in oncology.

This on-demand webinar focuses on emerging trends in research, care design, and clinical best practices for both oncology and palliative care teams, including using best-practice palliative care tools to provide value goal-concordant care.

This on-demand webinar focuses on emerging trends in research, care design, and clinical best practices for both oncology and palliative care teams, including using AI to enhance care.

This is the first webinar in our ACS series, focusing on emerging trends in research, care design, and clinical best practices for both oncology and palliative care teams.

This is the second webinar in our ACS series, focusing on emerging trends in research, care design, and clinical best practices for both oncology and palliative care teams.

Techniques for communicating with patients and caregivers about their serious illness and eliciting patient hopes, fears, and priorities for care.

Tools for refining your palliative care program’s marketing strategy, and your messaging.

Training and clinical tools for managing pain in patients living with serious illness, with a focus on safe opioid prescribing and risk assessment for substance use disorder.

Comprehensive clinical training courses on chronic pain management, risk mitigation, assessing opioid misuse, and assisting with access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) for patients living with serious illness.

Opioid pocket reference for providers including safe starting doses, equianalgesic chart, and standard dosing strengths.

In this case review, the presenters review ketamine pharmacology and current evidence for its use in palliative care pain management, discuss documented dosing protocols, and share clinical experience.

In this on-demand case review, participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the historical context and status of medical cannabis use, focusing on its transition from traditional to therapeutic applications.

Training curriculum and clinical tools for assessing and managing five common symptoms in patients living with serious illness.

In this Master Clinician session, Drs. Danielle Noreika and Emily B. Rivet look at the pathophysiology and causes of nausea and vomiting in people living with cancer.

In this case review, discover practical tools and strategies to effectively assess and manage fatigue, enhancing patient outcomes.

Integration of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) into the routine care of patients with metastatic cancer is associated with increased survival compared with usual care. Basch, et. al. JAMA 2017.

Patients with advanced cancer randomized to receive outpatient specialty palliative care lived longer and had better quality of life. Hoerger, et. al. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, September 2018.