ESMO
Policy on Supportive and Palliative Care
The ESMO Policy on Supportive and Palliative
Care is a comprehensive document addressing:
- The role of the oncologist in the provision of
supportive and palliative care
- Supportive and palliative care training for medical oncologists
- Minimum standards for the provision of supportive and palliative care by cancer
centers
Goal
- Increasing the
degree of involvement of medical oncologists in the provision of palliative and
supportive care
- Formalizing the
special relationship between medical oncology and palliative care
Source
The ESMO Palliative Care Working Group has
developed the policy.
Publication and
distribution
On the Internet
- Freely
available from the ESMO Web site - Click here
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