The benefits of early specialty palliative care for patients with advanced cancer have been clearly demonstrated in a variety of settings. However, despite these benefits, both individual and system-level barriers exist to early referral and care. Strategies involving personalizing timing of referrals and care received, including the use of patient-reported outcomes, patient and tumor-specific characteristics, and harnessing technological advances, and the use of telemedicine may help to overcome these barriers.
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