Position Paper of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology on Early Palliative Care in Oncology Practice (Simultaneous Care) | Zendy

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Position Paper of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology on Early Palliative Care in Oncology Practice (Simultaneous Care)

Author(s) -

Vittorina Zagonel,

Vittorio Franciosi,

Antonella Brunello,

Guido Biasco,

Chiara Broglia,

Daniela Cattaneo,

Luigi Cavanna,

Domenico Corsi,

Gabriella Farina,

Luisa Fioretto,

Teresa Gamucci,

Gaetano Lanzetta,

Roberto Magarotto,

Marco Maltoni,

Paolo Marchetti,

Elena Massa,

Cataldo Mastromauro,

Barbara Melotti,

Fausto Meriggi,

A. Nacci,

Ida Pavese,

Erico Piva,

Michela Quirino,

Mario Roselli,

Cosimo Sacco,

Giuseppe Tonini,

Livio Trentin,

G. Ucci,

Roberto Labianca,

Stefania Gori,

Carmine Pinto,

Stefano Cascinu

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

tumori journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 2038-2529

pISSN - 0300-8916

DOI - 10.5301/tj.5000593

Subject(s) - palliative care , competence (human resources) , medicine , position paper , medline , personalized medicine , oncology , family medicine , nursing , psychology , bioinformatics , social psychology , pathology , biology , political science , law

One of the priorities of personalized medicine regards the role of early integration of palliative care with cancer-directed treatments, called simultaneous care. This article, written by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM) Simultaneous and Continuous Care Task Force, represents the position of Italian medical oncologists about simultaneous care, and is the result of a 2-step project: a Web-based survey among medical oncologists and a consensus conference. We present the opinion of more than 600 oncologists who helped formulate these recommendations. This document covers 4 main aspects of simultaneous care: 1) ethical, cultural, and relational aspects of cancer and implications for patient communication; 2) training of medical oncologists in palliative medicine; 3) research on the integration between cancer treatments and palliative care; and 4) organizational and management models for the realization of simultaneous care. The resulting recommendations highlight the role of skills and competence in palliative care along with implementation of adequate organizational models to accomplish simultaneous care, which is considered a high priority of AIOM in order to grant the best quality of life for cancer patients and their families.

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