Abstract
Palliative care in cancer patients requires a continuous reprioritization of effort. This review describes the need for this reprioritization and uses smoking cessation as a case-in-point. The treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer has changed dramatically in the past few years. Interestingly, patients who had previously smoked now have an improved prognosis—for a variety of reasons. This review discusses this last observation in detail and raises the question of how forcefully we should advise smoking cessation in patients with incurable metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 33 |
Journal | Current treatment options in oncology |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1 2019 |
Keywords
- Case-in-point
- Palliative care
- Smoking cessation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Oncology
- Pharmacology (medical)