Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine
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Palliative oncology: identity, Progress, and the Path ahead

Alexander Bryan^*

Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

Received Date: Dec 06, 2021 / Accepted Date: Dec 20, 2021 / Published Date: Dec 27, 2021

Citation: Bryan A (2021) Palliative oncology: identity, progress, and the path ahead. J Palliat Care Med 11: 445.

Copyright: © 2021 Bryan A. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Palliative care is a rapidly increasing specialization of medicine that involves skilled and active assessment, evaluation, and treatment of patients' and families' medical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. It adds to the patient's usual medical treatment by providing an extra layer of support. Palliative care is becoming more important in the oncology community as disease is discovered earlier and therapies improve. The role of palliative care services for such patients is actively changing as a result of these developments in oncology. We will discuss evolving paradigms in palliative care and try to identify significant education, research, and policy issues for the field of palliative oncology in this paper. Despite the urgent need to improve multi-faceted and multi-specialty symptom treatment as well as patient– physician communication Oncologists have differing viewpoints on the extent of palliative care, and they continue to get contradictory messages. This occurrence highlights a fast changing healthcare landscape, needing ongoing palliative care education and professional self-evaluation in order to give the best possible care to patients with critical diseases

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