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Impact of Palliative Care in Evaluating and Relieving Symptoms in Patients with Advanced Cancer. Results from the DEMETRA Study

Cristina BosettiGianlorenzo ScaccabarozziMatteo CrippaLuca RivaGiacomo PellegriniOscar CorliEmanuele Amodio

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Background: Cancer patients experience multiple symptoms throughout the course of the disease. We aimed to provide a comprehensive analysis of the symptom burden in patients with advanced cancer at admission to specialist palliative care (PC) services and seven days later to estimate the immediate impact of PC intervention. Patient and methods: The analysis was based on an observational, prospective, multicenter study (named DEMETRA) conducted in Italy on new patients accessing network specialist PC centers during the period May 2017&ndash

10.3390/ijerph17228429http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228429