Palliative and end-of-life care initiatives for people dying from cancer in India: a narrative review
Naveen Salins, Krithika Rao, Anuja Damani, Sushma Bhatnagar, Srinagesh Simha · 2024
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Naveen Salins and co-authors review palliative care for people dying of cancer in India in a 2024 paper. Cancer cases and deaths are rising fast in India, but access to comfort-focused care lags far behind. The review maps the gaps and the programs trying to close them.
A lack of trained capacity stands out as the core barrier. Helpful steps include services inside cancer centers, wider community care, structured training for specialists, better access to pain drugs, and policy support. Free hospice and home services ease the heavy costs families face. Respite care supports caregivers in some regions. The authors call for a tool that flags health-related suffering early, and for firmer testing of combined cancer and palliative models.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Naveen Salins, Krithika Rao, Anuja Damani, Sushma Bhatnagar, Srinagesh Simha |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |