Palliative care includes care at home or in hospitals, hospices or palliative care units for people whose disease cannot be cured. Palliative care focuses not only on physical symptoms but in emotional well-being, relationships with others and spiritual needs.
Palliative care includes more than care for people who are dying. Any treatment that the woman may have for metastatic breast cancer that helps reduce her symptoms and improves her quality of life, such as radiotherapy or chemotherapy can also be called palliative care.
There are benefits in establishing contact with a specialist palliative care service, even while the woman is relatively well.
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