In conjunction with the Melanoma stream, the Palliative Care stream is reviewing the palliative care needs of patients treated with immunotherapy. The review includes referral patterns to palliative care from melanoma, since institution of immunotherapy treatments (approximately 3.5 years), treatment with immunotherapy within one month of death and outcomes for those patients, admissions to hospital or ICU within one month of death and place of death.
Sponsor
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Principal Investigator/s
Dr Sonia Fullerton
Contact details
Dr Sonia Fullerton
Principal Investigator
Email: [email protected]
Publications & presentations
Wong, A., Fullerton, S., Spruyt, O., Brady, B., McArthur, G., Sandhu, S., Integration of Immuno-oncology and palliative care. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2016, 34(13): 1561-2
