Thus, early integration of supportive care and PC in oncology is essential.
This guideline will only consider the last weeks and days of life for the adult patient with advanced cancer.Īt EoL, the goal of care is focused towards comfort, offering a tailored and individualised management of quality of life (QoL) and approaching death of the patient. 1 This European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) refers to EoL as care for people with advanced disease once they have reached a point of rapid physical decline, typically the last few weeks or months before an inevitable death as a natural result of a disease. In palliative care (PC), the term ‘end of life’ (EoL) is commonly used but inconsistently defined.
