Experiences of patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis-related complex care needs and their caregivers

CONCLUSION: Patients with PC and their caregivers are highly burdened by symptoms and care needs. Patients' prognostic understanding and advance care planning are suboptimal. Interventions that train patients with PC and their caregivers to perform clinical care tasks, facilitate serious illness conversations, and provide psychosocial support are needed.PMID:38141533 | DOI:10.1016/j.ygyno.2023.12.013

Source: Gynecologic Oncology - December 23, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Rachel A Pozzar Jaclyn A Wall Anna Tavormina Embree Thompson Andrea C Enzinger Ursula A Matulonis Susana Campos Larissa A Meyer Alexi A Wright Source Type: research