Palliative care is an important part of many people’s lung cancer care plan. The purpose of palliative care is to improve quality of life. It may provide relief from pain and other symptoms and side effects of lung cancer and is appropriate for patients at every stage of their cancer journey. However, despite the indisputable benefits of palliative care, many people living with lung cancer don’t take advantage of it. This may be because they are not aware of the ways that palliative care might improve their symptoms or because they believe it to be the same thing as hospice care and therefore do not believe they need it.

In May’s Lung Cancer Living Room GO2 for Lung Cancer’s Chief Patient Officer, Danielle Hicks, was joined by Dr. Millie Das to discuss what palliative care is and isn’t, why all people living with lung cancer should consider adding palliative care to their treatment regimen, and the ways that palliative care differs from hospice care.

Speakers: Millie Das, MD, Chief of Oncology, VA Palo Alto, Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine-Oncology, Stanford Cancer Center; Danielle Hicks, GO2 for Lung Cancer

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Please join us on June 20th at 5:30pm PT/8:30pm ET for the next Lung Cancer Living Room. Innovative clinical trial designs will be discussed with Dr. Karen Reckamp, director, division of medical oncology, associate director, clinical research, clinical professor, department of medicine at Cedars-Sinai, and co-chair, Lung-Map; Judy Johnson, MBA, SWOG Cancer Research Network Lung Committee Patient Advocate; and Andrew Ciupek, PhD, GO2 for Lung Cancer. You can join us in our San Carlos, CA office or watch on YouTube Live.

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