Turns out, palliative care interventions can help patients with depression and advanced cancer live longer. The Dartmouth-led study drew on data from two randomised controlled trials with advanced cancer patients using ENABLE (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends), a palliative care intervention designed to improve quality of life among patients diagnosed with cancer. Another study showed that cancer patients who decide to die at home tend to live longer. The researchers compared the effect that early intervention, delayed intervention or no palliative care intervention (i.e. This was especially true for those higher in depression in the usual care group (none of whom received the palliative care intervention).

Source: Hindustan Times November 11, 2017 03:45 UTC