Palliative care
What it is and why it matters
- Medical Review: Kimberly Curseen, MD
Palliative care is specialized medical care focused on providing relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of serious illness.
A challenge of living with metastatic breast cancer is how to live fully while managing the impact of treatment. Palliative care can support you through these challenges both physically and emotionally. But what is palliative care? This video helps explain palliative care and how it can enhance quality of life, as well as options that can help you continue treatment and its side effects.
Palliative care & symptom management: Improving quality of life in MBC
Pallavi Kumar, MD, MPH, explains what palliative care is, what it isn’t, and how to access it. This session will also help you understand how palliative care can help manage symptoms such as pain and fatigue, as well as support emotional well-being. Learn more about the 2026 Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer.
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