Share of Cost, Palliative care legislation would help cancer patients and survivors
The recent post on The Hill’s Contributors Blog – “After cancer care needs improvement” – highlighted the critical need for cancer patients and survivors to have access to supportive care that treats the whole patient, not just their disease. That’s where palliative care can help. Palliative care is a team-based approach that can be given with curative care right from the point of diagnosis. It improves quality of life for both patients and their families by addressing the pain, anxiety, and other debilitating symptoms that patients often feel.