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To outline clinical best practices and provide guidance for healthcare providers managing palliative and end-of-life care in children and adolescents with cancer.

August 21, 2013The Journal of Supportive OncologyOpen Access

Best practices for pediatric palliative cancer care: a primer for clinical providers

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To outline clinical best practices and provide guidance for healthcare providers managing palliative and end-of-life care in children and adolescents with cancer.
Narrative review synthesizing clinical guidelines, expert consensus, and evidence on pediatric palliative oncology.
Evaluation of key domains including developmental communication, pain management, prognostic uncertainty, and concurrent disease-directed therapy across age groups.
Early palliative care integration mitigates severe suffering, which historically impacts up to 89% of pediatric oncology patients during their final month of life.
Access to specialized pediatric palliative services remains limited, with formal programs established at fewer than 60% of Children's Oncology Group centers.
Effective home-based pediatric palliative care requires equipping adult-focused community hospices with developmental, dosing, and shared decision-making frameworks.

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Clinical review highlights essential palliative strategies for pediatric oncology, indicating that early specialized symptom management and concurrent care reduce end-of-life suffering.

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Levine et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a77de1ac5ab23c76cecf95a https://doi.org/10.12788/j.suponc.0012

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Clinical review highlights essential palliative strategies for pediatric oncology, indicating that early specialized symptom management and concurrent care reduce end-of-life suffering.

Best practices for pediatric palliative cancer care: a primer for clinical providers

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Best practices for pediatric palliative cancer care: a primer for clinical providers

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