Palliative Care Can Provide a Better Death–and Even a Longer Life

November 26, 2014

(The Guardian) – Metastatic lung cancer is hard to treat. So if there were a treatment for people with the disease that had minimal side effects, could extend not just the quantity of life but also its quality, we’d expect it to be a blockbuster. There is indeed such a treatment, as described in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2010, but it’s not a tablet. It’s palliative care.