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. 2014 Feb;14(1):79–82. doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-1-79

Fig 1.

Fig 1.

The cancer trajectory. The traditional cancer trajectory used to be based upon an initial phase of disease-modifying treatments followed by -palliative care, with transfer of care from oncology to palliative care teams. Now, early palliative care improves outcomes for patients with lung cancer such that palliative care and disease-modifying treatments often run in -parallel.10