Timing Matters: A Systematic Review of Early Versus Delayed Palliative Care in Advanced Cancer.

Cancers (Basel) · 2025 · PMC12346342 · PMID 40805293

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Trials assessing healthcare utilization [ 38 , 49 , 50 ] consistently showed numerical reductions in hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and ICU admissions, but effects were often modest and did not reach statistical significance, reflecting heterogeneous intervention intensity and follow-up duration.

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