The key aim of treatment should be to help you have the best possible care and quality of life, by ensuring access to appropriate treatment, management of symptoms and addressing what’s most important to you. Supportive care should be a constant thread that underpins and runs throughout your cancer pathway - from diagnosis to discharge - if cure is achieved, or end of life care - if not. One or more of the approaches below may be suggested: • Removal of all or part of your neuroendocrine cancer • Control of your disease, by slowing or stopping cancer growth / spread • Palliation, or easing, of your symptoms **If detected and diagnosed early enough - neuroendocrine cancer, that can be completely removed (R0 resection with no positive lymph nodes or infiltration) - can be cured**
Through the early identification, correct assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual, palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients (adults and children), and their families, who are facing problems associated with potentially life- threatening or life-limiting illness.
WHO (World Health Organisation) (2020) Palliative Care https://www.who.int/news-room/ fact-sheets/detail/palliative-care
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