Virtual palliative care improves quality of life in advanced lung cancer
08/15/24 at 03:00 AM
Virtual palliative care improves quality of life in advanced lung cancer
MedPage Today; by Greg Laub; 8/13/24
In this exclusive MedPageToday video, Roy Herbst, MD, PhD, of Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut, discusses a studyopens in a new tab or window presented at the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, which showed that patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer receiving palliative care via video consultation had outcomes comparable to those treated in person. Following is a transcript of his remarks: ... "Access is the biggest issue we have in cancer in all of medicine these days."