Supportive Care in Cancer

, Volume 24, Issue 4, pp 1883–1888 | Cite as

Supportive/palliative care in cancer patients: quo vadis?

  • Jean Klastersky
  • Isabelle Libert
  • Bénédicte Michel
  • Myriam Obiols
  • Dominique Lossignol
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Abstract

Supportive care in cancer has become a paradigm for the treatment in oncology. Now, we have guidelines and active research in that field, making this area of clinical oncology both authoritative and rapidly progressing.The present paper focuses on the clinical experience of a group involved with supportive care in cancer patients for more than 25 years; it is hoped that our considerations might be helpful for further developments in this concept.

Keywords

Palliative care Early palliative care Best supportive care 
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Acknowledgements

The skillful secretarial help of Marie-Aline Echterbille and Nadia Santoro was fully acknowledged.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jean Klastersky
    • 1
  • Isabelle Libert
    • 1
  • Bénédicte Michel
    • 1
  • Myriam Obiols
    • 1
  • Dominique Lossignol
    • 1
  1. 1.Medicine Department, Supportive Care UnitInstitut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de BruxellesBruxellesBelgium

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