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ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines: Supportive and Palliative Care

Latest enhanced and revised set of guidelines

Supportive and palliative care are areas of high importance in oncology and ESMO published Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of a variety of issues: Palliative Care in the COVID-19 era, Advanced Care Planning, Anaemia and Iron Deficiency in Patients With Cancer, Anxiety and Depression, Bone Health in Cancer Patients, Cancer Cachexia in Adult Patients, Cancer Pain, Cancer-related Fatigue, Care at the End of Life, Central Venous Access in Oncology, Chemotherapy Extravasation, Constipation in Advanced Cancer, Delirium in Adult Cancer Patients, Diarrhoea in Adult Cancer Patients, Infusion Reactions to Systemic Anticancer Therapy Febrile Neutropaenia, Fertility Preservation and Post-treatment Pregnancies in Post-pubertal Cancer Patients, Management of Breathlessness in Patients with Cancer, Management of Cardiac Disease, Management of Orphan Symptoms, Neurotoxicity, Oral and Gastrointestinal Mucosal Injury, Prevention and Management of Dermatological Toxicities Related to Anticancer Agents, Prevention of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting, Prognostic Evaluation in Advanced Cancer, Role of Patient-reported Outcome Measures, Toxicities from immunotherapy and Venous Thromboembolism in Cancer Patients.

The ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are intended to provide the user with a set of recommendations for the best standards of cancer care, based on the findings of evidence-based medicine.

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