Supportive care in oncology Learning Zone
Transcript: What is the difference between supportive, palliative and patient-centred care
Dr Matti Aapro
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Supportive care in general is understood as what is being done when there is active anti-cancer treatment. Palliative care is understood as what provides palliation to the patient, not only because of the treatment, but because of the disease itself, often in a situation when the active treatment is not being provided anymore. And of course, there's a continuum between all of these steps, and sometimes a patient will go back to supportive care from a palliative care situation, because something was found that had not been understood first, and which allows to intervene with a potentially useful treatment, which could also be not only medical treatment but radiotherapy or surgery for these patients. And, all of this has to be patient-centred.
Now, this is a big buzzword for me, this patient-centred treatment. We have always thought of the patient's interests. Maybe, we haven't said it correctly. But, everything we do in medicine is patient-centred. It is not centred around a disease. It is centred around a person that unfortunately has that particular disease.
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