Onco-Palliation
Onco-Palliation, or palliative oncology, is the care specialized for cancer patients with an objective of providing comfort by managing symptoms, pain, and stress, along with the regular anti-cancer treatments. It is not just at the end of life, but involves an interdisciplinary team to provide comprehensive support to the patient and their family.
The areas of Onco-Palliation encompass the following:
⇒Symptom and pain management:
The primary goal is to control pain and physical symptoms like nausea, breathlessness, and fatigue.
⇒Psychological, social, and spiritual support:
It aims at the emotional and spiritual well-being, by overcoming conditions like depression, anxiety, and existential concerns.
⇒Quality of life:
The main objective is to enhance the quality of life for the patient and their family by providing comfort and dignity.
The key aspects of Onco-Palliation are:
⇒Early integration: Palliative care can and should be an integral part of from the early phase in the course of cancer treatment, along with the curative therapies, thus help patients live more comfortably and longer.
⇒Team-based approach: A specialized team of doctors, nurses, and other professionals work as a team to provide this care.
⇒Complementary to curative treatment:Onco-palliation is not an alternate for cancer treatment but is to be initiated at the same time as anti-cancer treatments, like chemotherapy or radiotherapy, which help shrink the primary and metastatic tumors and relieve the symptoms.
⇒Patient and family-centric: The care involves the patient’s and families in active decision-making.
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