Symptom Control and Palliative Care in Cancer
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Survivorship and Quality of Life".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 103
Special Issue Editor
Interests: palliative care; cancer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Patients with advanced cancer often experience severe physical and psychological distress resulting in a significant impact on the patients’ quality of life. Palliative and supportive care focuses on improving patients’ symptoms, such as pain, and quality of life in patients with life-limiting illnesses irrespective of their prognosis. Other important aspects of palliative care are to facilitate effective communication between patients and clinicians and help to address moral and ethical dilemmas encountered in cancer care. In this Special Issue, we aim to discuss the advances in the field of symptom control and palliative care in cancer, with a focus on advances in the mechanisms, assessment, and management of cancer-related symptoms in patients with cancer. Additionally, the articles of this Special Issue will focus on the current challenges in the management of these palliative care issues and discuss strategies to overcome these challenges through education and research.
Prof. Dr. Sriram Yennurajalingam
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- palliative care
- survivorship
- cancer
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