How importance of palliative care in lung cancer patient?

Phichai Chansriwong, MD Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University

Outline

1. What is palliative care ? 2. Palliative care and Lung cancer : A PERFECT

MATCH? 3. Who should be treated with PC? 4. When to integrated palliative care? 5. Hospital based palliative care:

3 Main arguments 6. Good death

• “Palliative care is whole person care”

• Palliative care VS Hospice care – Palliative care Pallium – Hospice hospes hospitium – Hospice (curative treatment) VS Palliative care Curative treatment

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Humanized medicine

WHO Definition of Palliative Care

• Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.

http://www.who.int/cancer/palliative/definition/en/

Palliative Care Consult: Three Parts

Who should be treated with PC?

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Cancer and non- cancer

Palliative care and Lung cancer: A PERFECT MATCH?

Chronic, life-limiting, and highly morbid illnesses “But the time will come when breathing becomes not only difficult but painful. The only thing they will be able to do for me is prescribe pain killers or put me on an oxygen mask. There will be absolutely no quality of life.”

• There are also distinct differences between the disease trajectory of cancer and common non-cancer diseases

When to start palliative care?

Palliative care

The old concept: 2 ways of the journey for the patient

Disease-focused Care (“Aggressive Care”)

Palliative care and curative care

The wrong concept: Palliative care in a sense meaning palliative therapies without curative intent, when no cure can be expected (as often happens in late-stage cancers).

Integrated palliative care in every phase

Early integrated palliative care

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Early palliative care : better quality of life, mean score FACT-L 98.0 vs. 91.5; P=0.03).

Improve depressive symptoms

(16% vs. 38%, P=0.01). Median survival was longer

(11.6 vs. 8.9 months, P=0.02).

An Impact of Early Palliative Care on End of Life Care in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Patients

Chanprasertpinyo W ,Semsarn S, Tangsujaritvijit V, Ngamphaiboon N, Reungwetwattana T, Chaiviboontham S, Konmun J, Sachdev V,

Chansriwong P

Department of MedicineFaculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital

Mahidol University

Mahidol University

Wisdom of the Land

Early palliative care group

Specialized palliative care doctors and

nurses

4 weeks & before Rx

Palliative performance scale (PPS)

Edmonton symptom assessment system(ESAS)

Assessment patients & families about

• Perception of the illness and prognosis

• Benefits and side effects of anti-cancer treatment.

Provided knowledge about the disease, Rx ,self care

initial consultation Advance care plan discussion

ETT

CPR

Inotrope

Place of death

Living will documentation

Monthly F/U at OPD or phone until death & bereavement f/u

Primary outcome

Secondary outcomes

Secondary outcomes

Study Design

Eligibility Criteria

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Cancer Type

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Trajectory of Quality of Life

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Trajectory of Depression Symptoms

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• The intervention led to improvement in caregivers’ total distress (HADS )in caregivers’ outcomes.

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Hospital based palliative care: 3 Main arguments

• 1. Clinical quality, reduced distress symptoms • 2. patient and family preference • 3. Financial

Symptom Prevalence •Pain •Fatigue •Constipation •Dyspnea •Nausea •Vomiting •Delirium •Depression/suffering

•80 - 90% •75 - 90% •70% •60% •50 - 60% •30% •30 - 90% •40 - 60%

Assessment

IDEA

FEELING FUNCTION

EXPECTATION EXPECTATION

Approach to Symptom

• Good assessment (ESAS/PPS/KPS) • Re-assessments • Multidisciplinary team approach • “Around the clock” medication for continuous

symptoms • Not forget the Breakthrough medication • Symptoms diary • Palliative care consult in uncertain, not

responding or difficult to control cases

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Quigley C. Hydromorphone for acute and chronic pain. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2009 Reid CM. Oxycodone for cancer-related pain: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Arch Intern Med 2006 Apr 24;166(8):837-43 Nicholson AB. Methadone for cancer pain. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2007 Oct 17

McNicol E. NSAIDS or paracetamol, alone or combined with opioids, for cancer pain. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2005 Jan 25;

Wong R. Bisphosphonates for the relief of pain secondary to bone metastases. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2002 Bauman G. Radiopharmaceuticals for the palliation of painful bone metastasis-a systemic review. Radiother Oncol 2005 Jun;75(3):258-70

Symptoms management

Ben-Aharon I. Interventions for alleviating cancer-related dyspnea: a systematic review. J Clin Oncol 2008 May 10;26(14):2396-404

Uronis HE. Oxygen for relief of dyspnoea in mildly- or non-hypoxaemic patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Br J Cancer 2008 Jan 29;98(2):294-9 Cranston JM. Oxygen therapy for dyspnoea in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2008 Jul 16;(3) Ben-Aharon I. Interventions for alleviating cancer-related dyspnea: a systematic review. J Clin Oncol 2008 May 10;26(14):2396-404

Shaw P. Pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusions. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2004;(1)

Hospital based palliative care: 3 Main arguments

• 1. Clinical quality, reduced distress symptoms • 2. Patient and family preference • 3. Financial

Palliative do the concordance of Patients and family wishes

• What is the impact of serious illness on patients and family

• What do persons with serious illness say they want from our healthcare system?

Hospital based palliative care: 3 Main arguments

• 1. Clinical quality, reduced distress symptoms • 2. patient and family preference • 3. Financial

Palliative is imperative care

Fiscal imperative

Good death

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” —Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie Institute of Medicine report published 19 years ago, a good death is one that is “free from avoidable distress and suffering for patient, family, and caregivers, in general accord with the patient’s and family’s wishes, and reasonably consistent with clinical, cultural, and ethical standards.”

A good death is possible How to die well

1. Experience as little pain as possible. 2. Recognize and resolve interpersonal conflicts. 3. Satisfy any remaining wishes that are consistent with their present condition. 4. Review their life to find meaning. 5. Hand over control to a trusted person, someone committed to helping them have the kind of death they desire. 6. Be protected from needless procedures that serve to only dehumanize and demean without much or any benefit. 7. Decide how social and how alert they want to be.

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Conclusion: Palliative Care

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