Jamie Jacobs, PhD, on Early Integrated Palliative Care: The Positive Effects
2017 Palliative Care in Oncology SymposiumJamie Jacobs, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, discusses study results that showed integrating oncology and palliative care early in the course of treatment helps people with incurable lung and gastrointestinal cancers cope better and have an improved quality of life and less depression (Abstract 92).
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