With an aim to comfort and care particularly when we cannot cure.
Palliative care does not cure or treat your cancer. Instead, palliative care relieves physical, emotional and psychosocial symptoms. It can begin when you are diagnosed with cancer and continue through all phases of treatment and follow-up to the end of life.
Stage 4 cancer treatment often includes palliative care. The goal of palliative care is to improve quality of life and increase comfort.
This may include chemotherapy, radiation therapy. Palliative Care for physical side effects might also include anti-nausea medicines, physical therapy, or help with nutrition. Supporting family with caring for their terminal ill loved ones.