Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri
We are fortunate today to interview two oncologists whose research has catapulted palliative care forward: Jennifer Temel, author of the landmark NEJM study on early outpatient palliative care for patients with advanced lung cancer; and Areej El-Jawahri, author of the landmark JAMA article on inpatient palliative care for patients with blood cancers undergoing stem cell transplant.\xa0\xa0
Jennifer\u2019s study is most widely known for the \u201ckicker\u201d - not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival.\xa0\xa0
Areej\u2019s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment.\xa0\xa0
We cover a huge amount of ground today, including:
- Jennifer\u2019s reaction when she unblinded the study and found that palliative care was associated with prolonged life
- Differences between inpatient and outpatient palliative care for cancer
- What\u2019s in the secret sauce of palliative care?\xa0 (hint: coping)
- What\u2019s the right dose of palliative care?
- Do we need separate palliative care models for each cancer?
- What is next for these two?\xa0
- Celine Dion
Additional links:
- Editorial on Areej\u2019s study
- Palliative care in lung and GI cancers
- GeriPal post on qualitative study of the Temel RCT
- GeriPal post on \u201cfast food\u201d style palliative care in chronic critical illness
- JAMA paper on remote symptom monitoring in cancer
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