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May 7, 2026BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care0 citations

Target Symptom Pharmacotherapy Improves Symptom Burden in Advanced Cancer Care

Target symptom-guided prescribing in home-based specialist palliative care: prospective quality improvement study

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RGRaffaele GiustiDMDaniele MarinelliGFGuglielmo Fumi

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Quality improvement study demonstrates targeted symptom management reduces pain and global burden in advanced cancer patients, suggesting a less-is-more approach.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the impact of pharmacotherapy focused on the patient's prioritized symptom in advanced cancer.
  • Prospective quality improvement design
  • Examined correlations using Pearson's r
  • Target symptom identified as pain in 45.7% of patients
  • Target symptom intensity halved within 2 weeks
  • Global symptom burden reduced by 39%
  • Supports a less-is-more approach to minimize polypharmacy

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Giusti et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fbf004164b5133a91a4341https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2026-006159
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