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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri
We are fortunate today to interview two oncologists whose research has catapulted palliative care forward: Jennifer Temel, author of the landmark NEJM study on early outpatient palliative care for patients with advanced lung cancer; and Areej El-Jawahri, author of the landmark JAMA article on inpatient palliative care for patients with blood cancers undergoing stem cell transplant.
Jennifer's study is most widely known for the "kicker" - not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival.
Areej's study is remarkably novel in that it…
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