Palliative care from diagnosis for every advanced cancer, including opioid access, worldwide
Palliative care given early alongside cancer treatment improves quality of life and sometimes survival, and most of the world has no access to it or to morphine. Make both universal.
Early integrated palliative care improved quality of life, mood and in some trials survival in metastatic cancer (Temel 2010), and is guideline-recommended, yet is delivered late or not at all in most settings; the Lancet Commission on palliative care documented that most of the world's population lacks access to opioids for pain. The proposal is a global standard: automatic palliative care referral at diagnosis of advanced cancer, trained generalist palliative capacity in every cancer unit, and a financed programme guaranteeing affordable oral morphine and essential palliative medicines in every country.
- Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most · Most people who die of cancer worldwide do so without adequate pain relief.
- Most of the world has almost no cancer care · Seven in ten cancer deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy, pathology, surgery and drugs are scarce.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- IdeaVideo palliative care as an equivalent default option for patients far from a team
Shares Temel: early palliative care alongside chemotherapy improved quality of life, mood and survival in lung cancer, Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most.
- IdeaAutomatic palliative care referral triggered by diagnosis, not by decline
Shares Temel: early palliative care alongside chemotherapy improved quality of life, mood and survival in lung cancer, Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most.
- IdeaPut the essential palliative care package into every universal health coverage benefit list
Shares Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
- IdeaSingle-fraction radiotherapy as the default for painful bone metastases
Shares Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
- IdeaTrials of low-cost opioid alternatives where morphine supply is unreliable
Shares Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
- IdeaNational opioid quota reform so morphine reaches cancer patients
Shares Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
- IdeaHome end-of-life care kits and trained family carers where no hospice exists
Shares Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
- IdeaA paediatric palliative care team in every childhood cancer unit
Shares Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.