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Palliative Care

Palliative care is focused on improving the quality of life for people living with a serious illness like cancer. People with cancer may receive palliative care at any time from the point of diagnosis, throughout treatment, and beyond. The information here will help you learn more about palliative care.

What Is Palliative Care?

Who Should Get Palliative Care and Why?

How and Where Is Palliative Care Provided and How Is It Paid For?

Finding a Palliative Care Program

Questions to Ask About Palliative Care

More Palliative Care Resources

Palliative Care Videos

Explore these videos to learn more about palliative care and how it can help relieve the symptoms of cancer and cancer treatment.

Palliative Care: Improving Quality of Life for Anyone with Cancer

This booklet gives you information about palliative care for people with cancer. It will tell you what palliative care is, how it can help, who should get it, where to get it, and how to find and pay for it.?

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Coping and Living Well During Cancer Treatment

The American Cancer Society has suggestions for healthy ways to deal with the stress and emotional challenges that come from a cancer diagnosis.

Managing Cancer-related Side Effects

What are cancer-related side effects? Learn more about common side effects that can be caused by cancer and cancer treatment and what you can do to manage them.

Complementary and Integrative Medicine

The terms "complementary" and "integrative" are sometimes used to refer to ways of managing cancer-related symptoms that are used along with standard treatments.

Advanced and Metastatic Cancer

Advanced cancers have usually spread from where they started to other parts of the body. This is known as metastatic cancer. But not all advanced cancers are metastatic.

If Cancer Treatments Stop Working

When many different treatments are no longer controlling the cancer, it could be time to weigh the benefits and risks of continuing to try new treatments.

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