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Dr. Mike Fisch tracks the trends from ASCO's Quality Care Symposium


 

We caught up with Dr. Michael Fisch of MD Anderson Cancer Center at the close of American Society of Clinical Oncology's first Quality Care Symposium to review the meeting's highlights.

According to Dr Fisch, palliative care pervaded the entire meeting, and its principles resonated from talk to talk, including assessing and managing symptoms to improve cancer care, the importance of communicating goals of care, and end-of-life planning.

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