The Need to Prioritize and Re-prioritize Palliative Care Options: Smoking Cessation as a Case-in-Point

Konstantinos Leventakos; Anna J Schwecke; Erin Deering; Elizabeth Cathcart-Rake; Anna C Sanh; Aminah Jatoi

doi:10.1007/s11864-019-0632-7

The Need to Prioritize and Re-prioritize Palliative Care Options: Smoking Cessation as a Case-in-Point

Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2019 Mar 22;20(4):33. doi: 10.1007/s11864-019-0632-7.

Authors

Konstantinos Leventakos¹, Anna J Schwecke¹, Erin Deering¹, Elizabeth Cathcart-Rake¹, Anna C Sanh¹, Aminah Jatoi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
² Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA. jatoi.aminah@mayo.edu.

PMID: 30903460
DOI: 10.1007/s11864-019-0632-7

Abstract

Palliative care in cancer patients requires a continuous reprioritization of effort. This review describes the need for this reprioritization and uses smoking cessation as a case-in-point. The treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer has changed dramatically in the past few years. Interestingly, patients who had previously smoked now have an improved prognosis-for a variety of reasons. This review discusses this last observation in detail and raises the question of how forcefully we should advise smoking cessation in patients with incurable metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

Keywords: Case-in-point; Palliative care; Smoking cessation.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Clinical Decision-Making
Disease Management
Health Priorities*
Humans
Neoplasm Staging
Neoplasms / diagnosis
Neoplasms / epidemiology
Neoplasms / mortality
Neoplasms / therapy*
Palliative Care* / methods
Smoking Cessation